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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



FEOM VAUQUOIS HILL 
TO EXERMONT 



A HISTORY OF THE THIRTY-FIFl H DIVISION OF THE 
UNITED STATES ARMY 



BY 

CLAIR KENAMORE 



1919 



GUARD PUBLISHING CO. 
St. Louis, Mo. 






Copyright, 1919 
By Clair Kenamore 



All Rights Reserved 



©CI.A529898 

Printed in the U. S. A. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



The author is indebted to many friends for as- 
sistance in the preparation of this book. He is 
particularly grateful to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
for permission to reprint dispatches and articles 
which had already appeared in that paper. He 
wishes also to acknowledge his obligation to the 
many officers and men of the 35th Division who 
have helped him. 



Illustrated with photographs taken by the 
author, by Lieut. C. A. McCoy of the 110th 
Engineers, and by the United States Army 
Signal Corps. The drawings were made by 
W. A. Byrnes from photographs. The maps 
are made from the Battle Maps of the French 
Army. 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I. The Morale of Private Simpich 9 

II. Training at Camp Doniphan 20 

III. The Voyage to France 27 

IV. Arches, "Wesserling, and the High Hills ... 37 

V. Into the Trenches in the Vosges 43 

VI. The Trench Eaid at Hilsenfirst 53 

VII. Other Vosges Fighting 64 

VIII. In Eeserve at St. Mihiel 67 

IX. Planning the Argonne Drive 76 

X. Officers Changed on Eve of Battle 78 

XI. The Plan of Battle 85 

XII. ''Let's Go'' 87 

XIII. Vauquois Taken — The 138th Before Cheppy . . 93 

XIV. Nels Wold's Glorious Death 98 

XV. Major Sauerwein Falls 107 

XVI. Captain Skinker's Bravery 112 

XVII. The 138th Takes Cheppy 117 

XVIII. The 139th Jumps Over the 137th 125 

XIX. Confusion on the Field 131 

XX. Failure of Liaison 135 

XXI. Night on the Battlefield . 141 

XXII. Crossed Orders for Second Day's Attack . . . 144 

XXIII. The Artillery Presses Forward — The Morning 

Attack 148 

XXIV. The Night Attack — Charpentry and Baulny 

Taken 152 

XXV. RlSTINE IN THE GERMAN LiNES 162 

XXVI. Artillery Riddles the 140th ...,,... 175 

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CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 

XXVII. The Front Line in Straits 184 

XXVIII. Night in Montrebeau Wood 190 

XXIX. Permission to Believe General Berry .... 198 

XXX. Eieger Charges Into Exermont 202 

XXXI. The 140th Advances 210 

XXXII. General Traub Asks to be Withdrawn . . . 216 

XXXIII. The 137th 's Firm, Thin Line 219 

XXXIV. The Engineers Hold the Front 225 

XXXV. The Last Day of Battle 232 

XXXVI. The Relief — The Work Done 239 

XXXVII. Sommedieue, Commercy and Home 244 

APPENDIX 

A. Conclusions of Gen. Drum on Thirty-Fifth in Argonne 

Battle 251 

B. Gen. Traub 's Letter of Transmission 252 

C. Confidential Report on Vauquois Hill 254 

D. Report of Capt. Hoffmann 256 

E. Gen. Clark's Letter to His Men 258 

F. Organization of the Division on Three Dates .... 260 

G. Record of Changes in Higher Officers ' 263 

H. Assignment of Missouri Guard Units 266 

I. Assignment of Kansas Guard Units 267 

J. Roster of the National Guard of Missouri 269 

K. Roster of the National Guard of Kansas 369 



CHAPTER I 



THE MORALE OF PRIVATE SIMPICH 

Private Joseph Simpich was fairly tired when the ad- 
vance on Exermont began September 29. He had lost 
himself for a while the day before, and ran across the 
field through a heavy fire until he was on the edge of 
the broken German lines. His shoes and leggings were 
soggy from the rain-soaked dead grass and the stream 
he had waded twice. He was winded and in no condi- 
tion for a fight when he met suddenly and violently an 
enormous German soldier jUst coming round the end of 
a hedge. Simpich regarded him as one of the biggest 
men he ever had seen, and to make matters desperate, 
Simpich 's rifle was empty. He had been firing it so 
rapidly that it was hot and the breach block had jammed. 
He could not eject the empty cartridge and put another 
in the chamber. 

He lunged at the German with his fixed bayonet, but 
Fritz went back like a dancer, and came forward again 
with a fancy stroke which Simpich had learned at Doni- 
phan. He also had learned how to parry it, and a fine 
bayonet duel was on. In the cold autumn rain on the 
open field, the two lone representatives of the opposing 
armies fought. Mud formed in the trampled wet grass, 
machine guns rattled in the distance, artillery pounded 
steadily away, and near at hand the spectral shattered 
trees and the shivering hedge dripped with rain, but the 
two men fought grimly what was to be the last fight for 
one of them. 



10 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

Simpich slammed at his opponent everything the crafty 
Scotch sergeant had taught him back in the states, and 
the German took it all in the manner prescribed by the 
instruction book, and gave back just as good as was 
sent. 

Bayonet fighting is hard work, and after his run, Sim- 
pich felt himself about done. Not a word had been 
spoken. Out of his inextinguishable high spirits and the 
boyish swagger and undying bravery, the very American- 
ism of the lad, Simpich said gaily : 

**Geht's gut, Fritz?" which in English, would have 
been something like *'How goes it. Bill?'* 

The words in German from this enemy caused the sur- 
prised German soldier to open his mouth, which was 
ludicrous, but he also opened his guard, which was fatal, 
for the American bayonet passed briskly through his 
chest, and he went down to rise no more. 

Simpich, utterly exhausted, stretched himself on the 
wet grass beside his recent foe to regain his breath. 
When that came back, he noticed that the man seemed 
strangely small for one who recently loomed so large. 
He felt a momentary pity for the man, hardly as big as 
himself, who had fought so well, but there was little time 
for sentiment. There was a battle on that day, and he 
had to find his command and tell the other fellows about 
this affair. 

The next day was September 29, and the 35th Division 
was making its last great stroke at Exermont. The lit- 
tle town never had more than five hundred population, 
and the total value of its contents never exceeded a few 
hundred thousand francs, but the Germans held it as reso- 
lutely as if the Crown Prince were quartered there. 

In the ranks of H Company, 139th Infantry again 



THE MORALE OP PRIVATE SIMPICH 11 

marched Private Joseph Simpich, tvs^enty-one years of 
age and one hundred sixty-two pounds of weight. He 
had regained his wind. Ahead of him were Major Rieger, 
Capt. McQueen, Lieut. McManigal, and alongside, in ex- 
tended order were his fellows with whom he had learned 
the trade of soldiering. Everybody was very tired. 
The advance over the bare ground to the right of Montre- 
beau Wood brought a torrent of fire out of the German 
positions on three sides. A machine bullet clipped Sim- 
pich on the ankle, and he sank down and examined his 
shoe. 

*' Going back?" asked Capt. McQueen. 

''No, it don't amount to anything," Simpich replied 
scornfully, and went ahead down the hill. Soon a ma- 
chine gun bullet caught Capt. McQueen in the calf of 
his leg, jarring him violently. 

''Going back?" asked Simpich. 

"No," said McQueen scornfully, "it don't amount to 
anything. ' ' 

They came to the edge of the town. The extended 
order closed up for the street fighting. Squads and 
platoons mixed and mingled. Officers and men went 
down. Lines were formed and broken, but slowly and 
surely the Americans pressed on through the rough street 
of the wrecked village, slowly northward, fighting hard 
every step. 

McManigal's platoon saw Capt. McQueen again. More 
machine gun bullets had found him, and finally a high 
explosive shell had put him out, and he lay still by the 
side of the road. Slow attrition of distant machine guns 
and hand to hand street fighting had melted McManigal's 
platoon until only a handful of men were with the lieu- 
tenant as they approached the bridge which spanned a 



12 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

stream. Machine guns from two emplacements crossed their 
fire over this bridge. A burst from the one straight 
ahead knocked out all McManigal's men but two, just 
before they reached the bridge. They were McManigal 
himself and Simpich and they pressed on alone. 

The back of McManigal's tunic was coated with dried 
mud. Simpich, the lone follower, saw a puff of dust 
break from his officer's back and he knew that a bullet 
had caught McManigal in the chest and passed through 
his body. McManigal crumpled up on the floor of the 
bridge. The other machine gun put three bullets through 
Simpich before he could reach his lieutenant. One broke 
his thigh, one shattered his knee-cap, one passed through 
the calf of his leg, and he went down. Lieut. McMani- 
gal's platoon of H Company had ceased to function. It 
was wiped off the muster-roll. 

When consciousness returned to the two wounded men 
on the bridge, the thirst which always comes with loss 
of blood was upon them. They crawled down from the 
bridge and to the water's edge, one on either side. This 
was about ten o'clock in the morning of September 29. 
The bank on Simpich 's side was nearly level where he 
lay on the sand. On McManigal's side it was very steep, 
and the lieutenant had difficulty to keep from slipping 
into the water. Most of the time both of his feet were in 
the water. 

Simpich put a tourniquet around his knee to stop the 
flow of blood. McManigal filled his canteen and drank, 
and then the officer and man discussed across the little 
creek the chances of the day. 

From w^here Simpich lay he could look under the bridge 
and see clearly the bare hill up which Rieger had ad- 
vanced. Simpich emploj^ed proper military courtesy in 



THE MORALE OF PRIVATE SIMPICH 13 

addressing his superior, always putting a sir or lieuten- 
ant in each, speech. McManigal could not talk much 
for the blood bubbled out of this wound whenever he filled 
his lungs. Presently Simpich dropped the military 
swank. ''Mac, it looks like it's all up with us. The Boche 
is counter-attacking. Our fellows are falling back.*' 

The Americans beyond Exermont had received the or- 
der to retire, and they were going back to the American 
lines directly, not passing through Exermont. The Ger- 
mans were following the retirement closely. This left 
McManigal and Simpich within the German lines. Soon 
Germans began to drift across the bridge. Presently 
four Americans, each pair carrying a litter came along. 
McManigal yelled to them: ''Come and get us." 

"We can't," they replied, "we are prisoners, and they 
won't let us handle anything but German wounded." 

About the middle of the afternoon a German soldier of 
most evil visage plodding over the bridge saw McManigal 
lying on the edge of the water and stopped and gazed at 
him. He slowly brought up his rifle, a short cavalry car- 
bine, and with elaborate care took aim at the lieutenant. 
McManigal, who spoke no German, was in that neutral 
state between consciousness and delirium. He watched 
the soldier with mild interest. As the German's finger 
commenced to tighten on the trigger, McManigal won- 
dered if there was as much slack to be taken up in the 
German trigger as in the American service rifle. Then 
Simpich said something to the man in German which was 
answered, and soon a violent argument in German was 
going on. The rifle up to that time was aimed at the 
spot between McManigal's eyes. After a particularly 
violent flow of German words from Simpich, the soldier 



14 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO KXERMONT 

lifted the weapon and strode angrilj^ away, apparently 
offended. 

**Wliat did you say to him?'' McManigal asked. 

*'I told him that this spot was under observation by 
the Americans," Simpich replied, ''and that our men 
undoubtedly could identify him through their powerful 
telescopes, and that if he shot you, they would take him 
apart, joint at a time." 

Then came the long stretch of waiting. Occasionally 
one of the men would become unconscious. McManigal 
fell into delirium in which he believed that his soul had 
left his body and was hovering about above them, look- 
ing down on the physical forms of McManigal and Sim- 
pich and expressing sympathy with them. Then he would 
fancy that he had been picked up by stretcher bearers, 
taken back to a hospital, his wound dressed, his body 
washed, and put into a clean and comfortable bed with 
white sheets, where a nurse fed him hot soups out of a 
teapot. **This surely is the most comfortable bed I ever 
was in," he said to Simpich. ''I wish you could be 
brought to this hospital, too." Then he would revive 
just as he was sliding into the water. 

Simpich had half a box of hard bread, but he could 
not eat it, and did not feel particularly hungry. Mc- 
Manigal had a bar of chocolate. He was afraid to try to 
throw half to Simpich for fear it would fall into the 
water and be lost. He wrapped paper around it, put 
it into the middle of a ball of mud and threw it across 
to his comrade. 

They had lain two days and two nights at that place, 
gazing across the water at one another by day, and grow- 
ing weaker and weaker, when the cold rain set in. Mc- 
Manigal suggested that they endeavor to crawl into a 



THE MORALE OF PRIVATE SIMPICH 15 

half ruined building about thirty yards away. They filled 
their canteens from the stream and made the start. Mc- 
Manigal completed his journey in an hour, but it took 
Simpich, dragging a useless leg, all the afternoon. The 
next day they were both exhausted. Thirst and hun- 
ger had come back, too. 

The shock of their wounds and the incidental nausea 
had delayed their hunger at first. Simpich had his con- 
diment can containing coffee and sugar. After an ex- 
haustive discussion of the situation, they decided it would 
be a good idea to make some coffee. They had no 
matches, but a French cigarette lighter which seemed still 
willing to work. 

Simpich being quite helpless, McManigal took the two 
canteens and crawled to the bank of the stream to fill 
them. While he was making his painful journey a Ger- 
man working party came up and took him prisoner. In 
spite of all his efforts and arguments, they would not go 
into the building and get Simpich, doubtless fearing a 
trap. 

Neither would they allow him to communicate with 
Simpich nor permit him to throw one of the full can- 
teens in to his wounded comrade. McManigal was taken 
to the rear by the Germans immediately. 

Simpich lay alone through the afternoon and the next 
night in the building. Occasionally he heard Germans 
passing, but his hope that American troops soon would 
come swarming into the town, cheering and cursing, and 
send him dashing back to a hospital in an ambulance 
never left him. The next morning, American artillery 
opened fire on Exermont, and this spurred his hopes. It 
was fine to be shelled by his own guns for this must be 
the bombardment preliminary to a charge. 



16 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

About the middle of the afternoon, some twenty-four 
hours after McManigal disappeared, he was lying on his 
back in the bare room, staring up at the rainy sky through 
the holes in the red tile roof, and listening to the shells 
bursting in the town, when one of the American shots 
landed squarely on the old building in which he lay. 
In a pandemonium of shattered tiles, falling walls and 
flying debris, he was hit violently in the face and on the 
head, and lost consciousness. 

When he became conscious again, there was a sting- 
ing pain in his eyes, and they were useless. He could 
see nothing. He had to accept the situation. He was 
blind. It occurred to him that it was particularly tough 
that an American shell had put out his eyes. He set 
himself to calculating how long it probably would be 
before he could reasonably expect relief, and to speculate 
on what callings would be open to a man without eyes. 
He recalled and canvassed the opportunities in several 
occupations which he might take up. That is morale. 
He thought of his brother, Fred, a consul in Mexico, and 
wondered if he could find a job for a blind man. 

What had happened to him was that the stone which 
hit him on the head had rendered him unconscious and 
his eyes had filled with lime from the mortar. His un- 
consciousness lasted until after nightfall, and so he lay 
through the night, between the overthrown walls, listen- 
ing to the far artillery and the near shells, staring up- 
ward in the darkness as a blind man. Not till dawn came, 
and he had finally mopped the lime from his eyes, did 
he find that sight was still his. 

The next day he decided to surrender. He heard Ger- 
mans fairly near him, and he raised a shout. A German 
climbed over the wall, and looking down through a hole 



THE MORALE OF PRIVATE SIMPICH 17 

in the wreckage above, covered Simpich with a pistol 
and asked him what he wanted. Simpich said he was 
willing to surrender himself as a prisoner of war, and 
that he wanted some medical attention, a little food and 
a lot of water. He was taken to the rear and that after- 
noon was put on the operating table in a German field 
hospital. That was October 3 and he had been wounded 
September 29. His wounds had been unattended, he had 
had no food and little water. It was time to surrender. 

When his platoon started out for its attack on Exer- 
mont, six hand grenades had been issued to each man. 
When he was wounded Simpich still had one buttoned 
up inside his blouse, and when he was put on the table 
October 3 for examination (after all German wounded 
had been attended to, of course) he unbuttoned his blouse 
and handed the grenade to a medical man. There were 
some ten doctors and sanitary men in the room then. 
Thirty seconds later there were but three, the patient 
and two stout surgeons slow of foot, who had been the 
last to reach the door and had wedged in it. When the 
wild cries had died down, Simpich called them back, and 
explained his peaceful intentions and that he had sur- 
rendered with all arms. 

They continued the examination, said his leg ought to 
have splints on it at once, but they could not put them 
on as they did not have enough for the German wounded. 
Two days later he was examined again, and the doctor 
said his leg should be put in splints at once, and that 
he would do it, too, if he had them, but that he did not 
have enough for the German wounded. Finally, on Oc- 
tober 10, they amputated the leg, and sent him on to the 
rear. On November 7 at Trier, he got a bath. He had 
not so much as washed his hands for six weeks. When 



18 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

he returned to an allied hospital late in January, 1919, 
he weighed 82 pounds, approximately half of his original 
weight, but his morale still was 100 per cent. 

It is with a division made up of officers and men like 
McManigal, McQueen and Simpich that this history con- 
cerns itself. When the 35th Division of the United States 
army landed in France May 11, 1918, it was as fine a 
body of fighting men of equal number as ever set forth on 
the desperate venture of war. 

When they were called to the colors nine months be- 
fore, they had been civilian soldiers of the best type, 
the National Guard of Missouri and Kansas, keen for 
the task and for the training which was to precede it. 
They carried the vim and enthusiasm of restless youth, 
and the brain and brawn of midland Americans. They 
were the pushing, boisterous products of a smiling, sunny 
land. 

On Sept. 29, 1918, what was left of them lay in an 
irregular line across the Aire valley, fighting desperately. 
Grimly and sullenly they held the front against a re- 
lentless foe. On that stricken field, the division had 
ceased to function as a unit. The action was of smal- 
ler units, each virtually an independent command, and 
out of the wreckage and waste of war, the only landmarks 
left where those set up by the stamina of the men. 

It was like a piece of soft bottom land through which 
a flood had swept. The clutter of dead weeds and the 
top soil was gone. The flimsy organization which was 
supposed to control and direct was washed away. But 
above the surface showed firmly set rocks and solid 
stumps of oak trees which the flood could not move. 
These were the fighting men, the lads who had turned 
aside for a while from factories, farms, offices and stores. 



T^HE MORALE OF PfelVATE SlMt^ICK 19 

to take up the trade of a soldier and to follow the wars. 
It is the purpose of this book to show the events which 
brought so fine a division to such a sorry pass, and 
the spirit which revived it again. The author will re- 
count the events and record the history, but he will leave 
to the reader the task of making the deductions. 



CHAPTER II 



TRAINING AT CAMP DONIPHAN 

It is necessary to review very briefly the organization 
and training of the 35th Division to make clear some of 
the things which came afterward. There were happen- 
ings in the Argonne battle which could be accounted for 
only after the searcher had trailed back to the old train- 
ing days at Doniphan. Other events, desperate and tragic 
things, too, went even further back to the foundations of 
the controlling system. 

To make up the 35th Division, the National Guard or- 
ganizations of Missouri and Kansas were combined. The 
Missouri Guard contributed, according to the record, 
14,282 men, and Kansas 9,781 men. When the divisional 
strength was placed at 27,000, the additional men were 
taken almost entirely from Missouri and Kansas drafts, 
so that the division started out and continued to its mus- 
tering out, a Missouri-Kansas outfit. 

All that these two states had of the men and means 
with which Avar is waged went into the national reser- 
voir. On August 5, 1917, the units passed from under 
the control of the states and became part of the United 
States army. 

The amalgamation of the forces caused a general shak- 
ing up of officers. Commissioned men of all ranks found 
themselves in new jobs, or in no jobs at all, soon after 
they reached Camp Doniphan, near LaAvton, Ok., to which 
place the division Avas sent for training. In National 

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TRAINING AT CAMP DONIPHAN 21 

Guard divisions, it was tlie custom to unite two regiments 
to make one regiment of the strength required by the 
new tables of organization. This left virtually half the 
officers without commands. In Regular Army divisions, 
skeleton units were enlarged, thus not only insuring 
commands for all officers, but making it necessary to ad- 
vance nearly all officers in rank. 

Major-General William M. Wright, a classmate of Gen. 
Pershing and a regular army officer of high reputation, 
was put in command of the division. Lieutenant-Colonel 
R. MacCleave was his chief of staff. Soon after Major- 
General Wright took command at Camp Doniphan, he 
and his chief of staff went to France on a tour of inspec- 
tion, and the command of the camp fell to Brigadier- 
General Lucien G. Berry, commander of the artillery 
brigade. To Gen. Berry also was left the task of elimi- 
nating undesirable National Guard officers. 

It seemed that all National Guard officers who occupied 
positions of prominence soon disclosed traits which made 
them unsatisfactory to the acting commander of the 
division. 

Gen. Berry was a Regular Army officer of fixed ideas. 
He had spent his life in the service, and his viewpoint 
was always that of the soldier. His knowledge of men, 
as such knowledge is understood in civilian life, was 
necessarily limited. He viewed everything with a mili- 
tary eye. He believed implicitly in his unerring ability 
to estimate a man at first glance, and he felt that once 
he had made that estimate, he must abide by it. He hon- 
estly believed that his patriotism and loyalty to the flag 
was the genuine unadulterated brand and all other va- 
rieties fell under suspicion. 

I do not know of any sure rule by which to determine 



22 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

before he has been tried, which man will prove himself 
a great soldier. But I am sure that an army officer sit- 
ting in the high and aloof place which his imagination 
creates, cannot determine at first glance whether a man 
has in him the stuff of which a warrior is made. 

Success in leading men in battle is about 15 per cent 
technical knowledge and 85 per cent common sense. 
Even West Point cannot make a great soldier of the man 
who is a born stamp collector or miniature painter. It 
can give him the 15 per cent technical knowledge but it 
cannot supply an aptitude for soldiering or the 85 per 
cent of common sense if the candidate has not got it in 
him. 

When Gen. Berry saw Col. ''Bill" Raupp of the Second 
Missouri, it doubtless did not take him long to decide 
that Raupp could not command a regiment in his army. 
The struggle to unseat Raupp occupied most of the fall, 
winter and spring. His regiment was broken up and 
made into machine gun battalions, he was tried on charges, 
he was sent before efficiency boards, he was rushed into 
examinations, but he came through with credit after each 
trial. 

The strict life of the army does not qualify a man to 
judge his fellows who have followed civilian pursuits. 
It would be like asking a cloistered nun to decide at first 
glance whether the worldly woman she met was good or 
bad. Only after a board had put Raupp through the 
gruelling test of an examination would it be shown what 
sort of a scrapper he was, and that he knew more about 
the textbooks on war than his judges. It finally was 
necessary to send him to the school at San Antonio and 
detach him from the division. They could not put him 
out of the army. 



TRAINING AT CAMP DONIPHAN 23 

Brigadier General H. C. Clark, commander of the Mis- 
souri National Guard, was *' found" by a physical ex- 
amination. General Clark was the father of the Missouri 
National Guard as it existed at that time. He had re-or- 
ganized it after the Spanish-American War, and had com- 
manded it ever since. After the declaration of war with 
Germany he had pushed recruiting and organizing so that 
in three months he had raised, organized, trained and 
equipped a force which under the Defense Act the State 
was given five years to raise. By August 5, 1917, the State 
had organized every unit authorized by the Militia Bureau. 
His energy was unending, and his strength never waned, 
but when he went before the examining board, composed 
of three surgeons of the regular army, it was found that 
his blood pressure was too high. Blood pressure in officers 
of the National Guard increases with their rank. The 
board also said that his lungs were affected as a result 
of an attack of pleurisy. 

The War Department on December 26, 1917, issued an 
order honorably discharging him from the service on the 
ground of physical disability. 

The moral effect of General Clark's presence with the 
troops in France would have been of incalculable value. 
His deep and sound military judgment and knowledge 
would have been a tower of strength. 

Brigadier General Arthur B. Donnelly, who had been a 
prominent figure in the St. Louis guard, finally resigned, 
rather than contest the unceasing war against him. 

Col. Leroy Robbins of a St. Louis regiment was forced 
out. 

Col. Perry L. Hoisington of Kansas was eliminated by 
a physical examination, after having been subjected to 



24 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

many humiliations by the camp commander. He was a 
capable officer of 22 years service. 

Many other Kansas officers were removed. Col. Hugh 
Means, of the 130th Field Artillery had passed the school 
for field officers at Fort Sam Houston and the school of 
fire at Fort Sill. Gen. Berry sent him before an efficiency 
board, and he was found to be not inefficient. Just be- 
fore the Division sailed for France, Gen. Berry relieved 
him of his command, and he stayed at Camp Doniphan 
throughout the war. 

Lieut. Col. Chas. S. Flanders, of the 137th Infantry, 
was * 'found" by an efficiency board just before the Di- 
vision sailed. He had been a captain in the Philippines 
under Funston, and had served in the Guard for twenty- 
one years. 

Lieut. Colonels Alex A. Sharp and Bruce Griffith, and 
Majors Aaron L. Hitchens and Albert H. Krause were put 
out for minor physical disabilities. 

Major Frank W. Butler Avas relieved from duty. He 
was transferred to another division, sent overseas and 
gained his Lieutenant Colonelcy. 

Major William A. Pattison, of the 130th Field Artil- 
lery, was mustered out. The officer in charge of artillery 
in the Militia Bureau had pronounced him the best artil- 
lery officer in the National Guard of the United States. 

Colonel Raupp 's was a typical case. Before the Second 
Regiment arrived in Doniphan Sept. 27, there had been 
something of a row in Missouri about the orders consol- 
idating the troops with the Kansas troops. When Colonel 
Raupp and Lieut. Paul Tucker reported. General Berry 
took them to task for this row and requested them to 
resign. They refused. The regiment was cut up into 



TRAINING AT CAMP DONIPHAN 25 

machine gun battalions and Raupp and Tucker, being 
surplus, were assigned to the Depot Brigade. 

Raupp, on October 10, was ordered before an efficiency 
board. October 15, Berry sent for Raupp and told him 
the findings were unfavorable and he would give him an- 
other chance to resign. Raupp refused again, asked for 
a copy of the proceedings, and was bluntly told he could 
not have it. The case was reversed in Washington. No- 
vember 12, Raupp was ordered before a physical exam- 
ination board. He passed. Nov. 18 he was appointed on 
a board to examine into and make recommendations con- 
cerning difference in weight in a number of cars of hay. 
This job took about one half hour and was the only work 
Raupp was permitted to do in Doniphan from Sept. 27 to 
Feb. 5, 1918. December 10, he was ordered before an 
efficiency board and ** found." 

He tried to see Gen. Wright but Col. MacCleave told 
him he was too busy to see him. The finding was again 
reversed in Washington. On Feb. 5, 1918, he was ordered 
to the Brigade and Field Officers School at Fort Sam 
Houston. The school had started Jan. 2, Raupp joined 
Feb. 7. Twenty-five per cent of the class failed to qualify 
but Raupp starting five weeks late passed. He was or- 
dered to Camp WadsAVorth, South Carolina, and reported 
there April 6. April 10, he was appointed Camp Guard 
Commander and held the place until demobilization. July 
7, he was assigned to command the 60th Pioneer Infantry 
and held this place until demobilization, receiving the 
highest praise from Major Gen. Carleton. Raupp had 
commanded the Second Missouri for 12 years. He had 
refused a Brigade Generalcy to stay with it. The record 
of the regiment after being transformed into machine gun 
battalions was second to none in France. Its officers held 



26 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

their commands all the way through, which applied to 
few other outfits. 

The training of the men for war was pressed with all 
possible speed. The camp was in a dry valley surrounded 
by mountains. Virtually all the men under canvas, the 
business of providing stoves for the tents proceeded very 
slowly, and cold weather came, with a fiendish wind 
which swept down out of the hills, and there was con- 
siderable sickness in camp. The base hospital was not 
completed, and facilities for caring for the sick were 
poor. Dispatches sent from Camp Doniphan to newspa- 
pers made this condition apparent to the public, and re- 
sulted in a censorship which Gen. Berry put on all news 
dispatches sent out of the camp. This was the first camp 
censorship in the country. 



CHAPTER III 



THE VOYAGE TO FRANCE 

The training went ahead with vigor through the fall 
and winter and into the spring of 1918. At that time, 
the war on the western front, where our battalions were 
to take their places, was a fixed one of the kind known 
as trench warfare. Our national guardsmen, in their 
camps and armories, had never trained for such a conflict. 
So experts in the new art of war — French, English and 
Scotch — were sent from the battlefields to teach them. 
The men were hardened and toughened by constant hard 
work, just as if the war was to be the open warfare they 
had studied, but the technique, the implements and the 
methods all were new. 

By the time Gen. Wright returned from France, the 
men knew a lot about digging trenches and throwing 
hand grenades, and in the use of the bayonet they had 
made amazing progress. Gen. "Wright seemed to think 
that they had devoted too much time to these specialties 
and not enough to the straight, standard lines of military 
training. He wanted them to be as nearly perfect as pos- 
sible in the use of the rifle, accurate in firing at all ef- 
fective ranges and skilled at maneuvering in the open or 
in woods by day or by night. 

The theory of the bayonet, I believe, is that if the sol- 
dier has acquired sufficient proficiency in its use, and has 
got what is called the ''spirit of the bayonet," he will 
not have to use it, because then the enemy will never 
stand against his charge. If this is right, those months 

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28 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

devoted to the bayonet were not lost. But very few men 
of the Thirty-fifth Division ever stuck bayonets into Ger- 
mans. 

Virtually all elements of the new division had reached 
Camp Doniphan by the middle of October. The late win- 
ter and early spring were filled with rumors of approach- 
ing departure. Nobody ever \uiew where all the rumors 
started, or how they spread over the camp A'vdth such 
swiftness. When the authentic one finally began to get 
about, it Avas accepted as avidl}^ and with the same as- 
surance as had been its false predecessors. But on April 
11 the men began entraining for the East. The news- 
papers and many individuals seem to have known of the 
troop movement, but nothing was printed. An immense 
crowd saw the troop trains pass through St. Louis, but 
the identification of the units in the printed reports was 
not such as to give the enemy intelligence service any in- 
formation. 

On the Atlantic seaboard, the division was assembled 
at Camp Mills, near Hempstead, Long Island, and on 
April 24 and 25, the Middle Westerners, many of them 
smelling salt water for the first time, moved over to New 
York and Hoboken, they "set a foot aboard a ship" and 
sailed away. The world was wide and the great war lay 
toward. 

The first convoy left Hoboken April 25, the transports 
Adriatic, Aeneas, Coronia and Shropshire carried Divi- 
sion Headquarters, Headquarters Troop and Detachment, 
Headquarters 70th Brigade, 137th Infantry, 139th Infan- 
try, 140th Infantry, and the 128th ]\Iachine Gun Battalion. 
On May 3 the second convoy left on the transports Car- 
pathia, Missanabee and Leicestershire, carrying the 
Headquarters 69th Brigade, Headquarters Trains and 



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Military Police, 138tli Infantry, 129th Machine Gun Bat- 
talion, 130th Machine Gnn Battalion and casual companies. 
A number of the smaller units crossed mth other divisions 
which were embarking* at the time. The first convoy 
landed in England May 7, the second May 16. The 110th 
Engineers embarked from Camp Merritt on the Great 
Northern May 1 direct to Brest without convoy and landed 
there May 10. 

The 60th Field Artillery Brigade followed the division 
landing in England June 1 to 7. They sailed on the 
transports Ceramic and Saxonia. The Trench Mortar 
Battery and the 110th Field Signal Battalion also crossed 
later. 

It was a cold, windy trip on a boisterous sea. The ships 
traveled in convo}^ and the submarine war was at its 
height. The convoy was routed far to the north, so that 
at one time it was in the latitude of the southern point of 
Greenland. It turned southward when near the Scottish 
coast and passed through the Irish Sea between England 
and Ireland, and when Liverpool finally rose out of the 
water it got a cheer from that convoy. That was on May 
7, and there was little sightseeing done in the British port, 
for the same day the men were marched onto trains and 
shot through to Winchester. 

Clay Berlin, an enlisted man, died of diphtheria in Win- 
chester. His was the first death overseas in the 35th di- 
vision. 

On May 10 the first half of the division entrained again 
and rode to Southampton, again embarked and in the night 
steamed down the Solent and through the submarine in- 
fested waters of the channel safely to Le Havre, landing 
there May 11. 

By 11 a.m. that day all outfits in that convoy had 



30 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMON!* 

landed on French soil or were in course of landing. Just 
six montlis later to the hour the armistice was signed. 

From Le Havre the troops moved as rapidly as pos- 
sible immediately after landing to the vicinity of Eu, 
where Divisional Headquarters was set up in the town 
hall. Excepting the units to come later the division was 
assembled, finally, in France, and the war was not very 
far away. By June 1 the outfit was quartered within easy 
range of Eu. Le Treport, a peacetime summer resort on 
the sea, but now a hospital center for convalescents, was 
three miles aw^ay. Dieppe was 17 miles to the southwest, 
and due east was the battle line. 

These were parlous days in the great war, especially 
in the camps of the high commands to which certain 
knowledge of the enemy's intention was brought by the 
intelligence services. The German had been attacking 
since March 21, and indications were that he was gath- 
ering his strength for a determined offensive whose pur- 
pose was possibly to break through the line and menace 
the channel ports. 

What force he would bring to this task was problemat- 
ical, but it was certain to be a dangerous one. The loss 
of the channel ports with the consequent limiting or de- 
struction of cross-channel traffic would have been almost 
a mortal blow to the allies, cutting off, as it would, the 
certainty of a normal flow of men and munitions from 
Great Britain. 

The enemy was pressing along the whole line, appar- 
ently feeling for a weak spot, and Foch could not know 
where he would strike. The French army of maneuver 
was kept somewhere in the neighborhood of the Cham- 
pagne, and the new American troops in the north of 
France remained back of the British. The long point of 



THE VOYAGE TO FRANCE ^1 

the advance was about to be pushed in at Chateau- 
Thierry, and the Marines were to make their gallant and 
successful fight at Belleau Wood and add bright garlands 
to their wreaths of fame. 

There was at that time no real American sector. We 
held a little stretch of trench up Luneville way, and at a 
spot or two down in the Vosges we were in very quiet 
sectors. The British army guarded the path to the Chan- 
nel, while the French legions stood watch and ward along 
the road that led to Paris. 

The First Division already had tasted blood at Can- 
tigny. Foch shuffled some other American divisions and 
put them into the line along with the French. They were 
the Twenty-sixth, from New England ; the Thirty-second 
from Wisconsin and Michigan, and the Forty-second 
called the ** Rainbow" Division. It looked very big to us, 
but we knew in sober thought that our American contri- 
bution to the army which was holding back the Hun was 
very small. The enemy was using a mobile force of 700,- 
000 men, the intelligence section said. Foch knew he 
could stop them on the Marne. If the attack should slide 
farther to the west and north, the British would be in a 
bad way. It doubtless was at the direction of the high al- 
lied command that Gen. Pershing lent all his forces in the 
training areas of the North of France to the British. 
There were nine divisions of them, one of which was the 
newly arrived Thirty-fifth. 

These were to be reserves to the British army. Amer- 
ican newspapers at that time spoke of these American 
troops as having '' finished their training" and of their be- 
ing attached to the British army. Their training really 
was not finished, but they had straightened out the kinks 
left by the long sea voyage, they had acquired a hurried, 



32 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

but acceptable, knowledge of the British rifle with Avhich 
they were equipped and they would have been able to 
put up a desperate fight if the British lines ever had 
given way and the Americans had been called upon to 
help stop the advancing enemy in the narrow stretch 
along the sea. But they would have paid a terrible price, 
for they were not as capable then of taking the field as 
they were four months later, and the price paid at the 
later date was dear enough. 

The parts of nine American divisions there exceeded in 
the aggregate 175,000 men. American newspapers at the 
time made their larger headlines day by day upon the 
gradual increase of enemy artillery fire on the British 
front. These nine divisions were gathered in the little 
corner at the north of France and they lay, nearly all of 
them, in the territory west of a line dra^'vii from Arras to 
Amiens. Our engineers were sent further north than any 
other elements of the Thirty-fifth Division. There they 
dug reserve trenches, erected barbed wire entanglements, 
and otherwise labored in the preparation of a line of de- 
fense to which the British could fall back if forced to do 
so, or into which some of the American reserves could be 
thrown to stop a rush to the channel. The enemy never 
reached that line. The infantry regiments got in some 
time at drill, and in reviving and polishing up their knowl- 
edge of the specialized methods of warfare which then en- 
grossed all military minds. 

The 35th Di^dsion did not get along very well with the 
British. They did not like the British noncoms, or the 
British soldiers, or the British officers. They conspicuously 
disliked the British rations, and they loathed tea for break- 
fast. It is almost impossible to make Missourians and 
Kansans drink tea for breakfast. 



THE VOYAGE TO FRANCE 33 

^'But WE have ALWAYS drunk tea for breakfast," a 
British mess sergeant pleaded. 

** Maybe that's vrhat is the matter with you," the 
American mess sergeant answered coldly. 

There were occasional fights between our men and 
theirs. That did not aid in cementing the entente. A 
British noncom who was a bit of a wag, heard an excel- 
lent wheeze at his own headquarters, and hurried to tell 
it to the Americans. He found three of them together on 
a sidewalk in Eu. 

* ^ I say you fellows ! Did you know the next war is to 
be fought between the two yellow races ? Yes, the Japanese 
and the Americans. Haw" — gentle hands bore him away 
to a hospital. 

There was one thing about the British service which 
was appreciated by many of our men of all ranks, coming 
as they did from the dry lands of Oklahoma, and the ad- 
ditional drouth which had touched everything in khaki. 
That was the British canteen system, both wet and dry. 
A dry canteen, in the British zone, did not mean prohibi- 
tion had made headway, but that liquors were not sold 
at that particular canteen. They specialized in' canned 
goods or clothing. At wet canteens there were stocks of 
drinkables to fit any thirst. English beer did not always 
evoke rousing cheers, but the whiskies, wines and liquors 
were above reproach, and always quite moderate in price. 
Americans had access to these canteens on an equal foot- 
ing with the British, but the business they might have 
given to this new institution was somewhat lessened by 
the fact that there had not been a payday since leaving 
Camp Doniphan. 

It was in the region about Eu that we first began hav- 
ing our struggles with the French language. The name 



34 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

of the town was called by the natives something like 
''Uhr," but we called it **You" until we had heard some 
Frenchman pronounce it, then we usually employed a 
grunt such as a red Indian is supposed to use, like 
''Umgh." 

All men of the division could feel the approach to the 
war, and could get much of the atmosphere of it from 
long trains of camouflaged trucks which plugged along 
the magnificent roads, or from the hospital cars which 
the trains carried daily down to Le Trepoi*t, where sick 
or wounded might recuperate by the sea, or from the air- 
planes which flew over in formation on their way to the 
front or back again. Only one unit had a touch of war 
in that area. That was E Company of the 138th, which 
had tarried at Mills to clean up the camp and had missed 
the division in England. 

Coming by a later boat, E Company ^s fortunes laid it 
up at night on a sidetrack in the railway station at Abbe- 
ville. This happened to be a night which enemy aviators 
had chosen to bomb the Abbeville railway station. 

The town was dark as pitch, war regulations having 
forbidden all lights, and the few dim ones about the 
tracks at the station were put out as soon as the alarm 
was given by the listening posts, miles nearer the front. 

The men of E Company were on open flat cars in the 
yards about the station. Night bombers always throw at 
the railway station. It was a trying thing to stay on the 
cars while the black sky above was filled with the whirr 
of angry motors, but there they stayed and waited for the 
crash of the first bomb of their part of the war, and they 
knew in reason it was coming soon. These men later on 
became pretty well acquainted with the detonation of 
high explosive, but on that night they heard their first. 



THE VOYAGE TO FRANCE 35 

**Kazzz-ZAM!'* it went, not a hundred yards away, 
and it sounded like it was almost under the car. The 
men took what little cover could be found in the neighbor- 
hood of the station, but some of them stayed on their 
cars and watched the air barrage. 

''Mark 41!" a doughboy shouted, as he had done be- 
fore on the rifle range when asking the scorer to mark 
his target. The spirit was infectious, and the strafing 
Germans got a verbal strafing from the ground which 
they could not hear, and which doubtless they could not 
have understood had they heard, but heard and under- 
stood, it would have given a fine idea of what these 
Americans thought of such night flying vultures, and how 
little regarded were their poisonous eggs. 

''Missed it a mile," "Set 'em up in the other alley," 
"Try the other barrel," they yelled as the succeeding 
bombs exploded, and they yelled many other things which 
it would not be proper to record. After a while the raid- 
ers flew back home and the next day the company, still 
intact, rejoined the regiment. 

The adventure of E Company did not bring the regi- 
ment or division any closer to the war. The feeling still 
was that they were getting on, but that the big show was 
well ahead. 

The night of May 26 and the morning of May 27, the 
Germans attacked on a 40-mile front, between Rheims 
and Soissons, against the British and French, and the 
endeavor to extend the gains made in the March offen- 
sive was apparent. Then they attacked below Ypres. 
The 35th Division came mighty near to getting into the war 
then, but we knew at the time little about how close we 
were to participation. A few officers and men went as 
observers to the front held by the Australians. The battle 



36 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

developed rapidly along the Vesle and the Aisne, and 
on May 28 a crossing of the Aisne was made. The French 
from Rheims westward braced themselves against the push 
and the foe slipped further westward. June 1, the foe 
again threatened the Marne, and only the desperate French 
resistance held him to the northern bank. 

The concentration of the attack along the line held by 
the French made it appear that the German design was 
to make another attempt on Paris, rather than toward 
the channel. The need for the Thirty-fifth in the British 
area passed, and they were booked for other fields. 



CHAPTER IV 



ARCHES, WESSERLING, AND THE HIGH HILLS 

On June 7 the Division resumed its travels. The enemy- 
lay along the Marne, and he could threaten the British 
as he did a few days later around Montdidier, but be- 
tween the German hordes and Paris lay the grim French- 
men, whose confession of faith and declaration of prin- 
ciples and litany were all embraced in the phrase **They 
shall not pass. ' ' Foch could again devote his energies to 
arranging his forces for his own offensives to come, and 
one of the details of this arrangement made it necessary 
for Gen. Pershing to send the 35th Division further to the 
eastward. 

Virtually all of the division entrained at Bushy or at 
other railroad points near there, after three days of dif- 
ficult marching. The usual line of march was Londinieres 
— Neuchatel — Bushy. At Bushy the troops got the Amer- 
ican Enfields. It was the third kind of rifle in four weeks. 
On this journey the men came to understand why some- 
one had written ''sunny France," for good weather at- 
tended. There had been much spring rain at Eu and an 
impression was spreading that it always rained in France, 
but on the trip to the south and east the division passed 
through a beautiful green country usually flooded with 
sunshine. The farms were tended to the last inch, and 
the chateaux which rose from the tops of gently swelling 
hills were like old pictures from a book of travels. 

The men rode in the famed "Hommes 40, chevaux 8," 
as the little French freight cars were universally called. 

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38 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

This legend was painted on the side of every car, testify- 
ing to its capacity for carrying that number of men or 
horses. The four-wheeled cars looked flimsy and frail 
to eyes used to considering the big, sturdy American box 
cars, but when one of those long trains got under way it 
moved with a dash and abandon which gave a good idea 
of French at war. 

The route was through Rouen, Versailles, Troyes, Cha- 
tillon and Epinal. Headquarters was next set up at 
Arches, which the natives called *^Arsh," but which we 
usually referred to as ''Archie." The 69th Brigade had 
headquarters at Hadol and the 70th at Pouxeux. Ele- 
ments of the division were scattered about the country- 
side, and some of them unloaded at the \\T?ong places, so 
that they drew long hikes as the result. The 138th had 
headquarters at Dounoux, which gave the M. P.'s an op- 
portunity to answer the usual question, ''What town is 
this," in the usual manner "Dunno." The Arches area 
was to the south of Epinal. It was a farming country 
near the Moselle River and the hills Avere becoming a 
little steeper and a little higher than those through which 
the division had passed on its way from Eu. 

It was not far to the German border of pre-war days, 
the majority of the people in the towns spoke German. 
It was an enlightening and entertaining thing in Dou- 
noux to watch Lieut. "Rollie" Reinholdt, regimental bil- 
leting officer, and the w^ife of the Mayor of the town dis- 
cussing in fluent German the Lieutenant's plan of billet- 
ing an Irish captain in her home. 

There was considerable opportunity for drill about 
Arches, and the men by this time were back in the excel- 
lent form they had shown when they left Doniphan. 

Ranges were selected in fields and the training and tar- 



ARCHES AND WESSERLING 39 

get practice of the men went on steadily. In the hikes 
back and forth between towns and ranges the men had 
glimpses of the life of rural France. Some of it they liked 
and some they did not. 

Our men observed that virtually all the farm work was 
done by women. Occasionally a French soldier was to be 
seen working with them, but there was a battle going on 
away to the west, and few soldiers had been released for 
the hay harvest. The Missourians and Kansans were not 
accustomed to this. Men did the work in the hayfields at 
home. Col. Edmund J. McMahon of the 138th said that 
all men of his regiment who wished to do so might vol- 
unteer to assist the women in the fields on Sunday after 
church service. Eight hundred men volunteered. 

Father Thomas D. Kennedy, who had just been made 
senior divisional chaplain and was about to leave the regi- 
ment, preached that day in the open place where the main 
roads crossed in Dounoux, and I remember that he 
'* bawled 'em out something fierce" (to quote a dough- 
boy) for swearing in English where the French women 
could hear. At that church service after the prayer, 
everybody sang ''Onward, Christian Soldiers," and then 
the band played "Star-Spangled Banner" and the ''Mar- 
seillaise." 

At one corner of that old-world space in Dounoux 
there was a grotesque stone carving on the building and 
beneath it the cross of Lorraine, that ever-present testi- 
monial to the province's loyalty to France. Out nearer 
the road was a stone monument topped by a cross, the 
work of a long-forgotten donor. Over the door of the 
house was engraved: "1821 Dieu soit beni," but on the 
corner itself was a new sign. It read "Grand and 
Olive." That means home to a St. Louisan. 



40 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

The American Army ration is a good, substantial diet, 
but it becomes very tiresome. The men crave a change, 
and they usually prefer something sweet. Not many of 
our men could buy sweets in this area, because there had 
not been a payday since March, in far-away Camp Doni- 
phan, and now it was June. Almost any soldier will tell 
you that the paymaster's department has as high a de- 
gree of incapacity and inefficiency as any branch of the 
service. 

One of the results in the area south of Epinal was that 
beehives began to disappear. They would be discovered 
in the early morning by the thrifty French peasant 
woman, lying in a concealed place, and expertly looted 
of honey. This custom became so widespread in the army 
that it finally brought a general order from expedition- 
ary headquarters setting a special penalty on the offense 
of robbing beehives. 

Our men had regarded it as a sort of joke. They had 
come all the way over here to fight for France, so they 
would just help themselves to a little French honey. The 
French peasants regarded it as a high crime. 

Our men were amazed to find what a row a French 
farmer's wife would raise about a dead fruit tree which 
had been cut down by a couple of doughboys who needed 
a fire to dry their clothing. Later they learned how valu- 
able wood was in France, and that even the smallest 
twigs were gathered into faggots and saved for fuel 
against the coming winter. 

One claim made against Maj. Sauerwein's battalion 
was that 100 liters of wine had been stolen by his men. 
The Major declared there was no justice in the claim be- 
cause ''there was no singing in camp that night." 

As a general rule our men were very popular with the 



ARCHES AND WESSERLING 41 

French women of whatever age or degree of winsomeness. 
If a doughboy saw a girl or woman wheeling a barrow 
along a road he took the handles and wheeled it for her, 
or, if she was carrying a bundle, he carried it for her. 
Their own men had been away at the front for four years 
so these little attentions were a pleasant surprise and 
much appreciated. I have never been able to figure out 
how our men and the French girls, without the medium 
of a common language, became such good friends in so 
short a time, but they did, and many a homesick dough- 
boy supplemented his ration at dusk in the generous 
kitchen of a French farm. 

On June 15 Major-General Wright was put in command 
of a corps and he left the division. Brigadier-General 
Nathaniel F. McClure, who had commanded the Sixty- 
ninth Infantry Brigade since May 26, took over command 
of the division, and Col. McMahon was acting commander 
of the brigade. 

On June 17, when the rain had commenced again, or- 
ders were received to prepare to move. June 17 also pro- 
duced a big mail delivery and a payday. Altogether it 
was a large occasion. 

The second Battalion of the 138th had the honor of be- 
ing the first unit in the Thirty-fifth to go to the front. 
Maj. Norman B. Comfort commanded it, and the com- 
panies were under Capts. Hundley, Lloyd, McDonald and 
Crist. Seventy trucks carried the men on a day lit by 
brilliant sunshine. The course lay through Arches, and 
up the valley of the Moselle. It wound between moun- 
tains which became higher and steeper with each mile, 
mountains to whose side clung farms which appeared from 
the valleys far below to be pasted on like green postage 
stamps, and whose houses seemed to be set in niches cut 
in the slope. 



42 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

At 5 :55 p. m. the first truck passed through a tunnel at 
Bussang, and started down into a beautiful valley. They 
were now in the country which had been Germany up to 
the beginning of the war. The tunnel wsls the boundary 
line. 

Yellow-haired Alsatian girls from the dusty roadside 
shouted welcomes, waved their hands hospitably and 
threw flowers into the trucks. The men were unanimous 
in the belief that it was a bully neighborhood to hold a 
war in, and everyone felt sure he was going to do well in 
this country. 

In the town of Wesserling in the Vosges mountains 
the men slept in a great barracks which formerly had 
been a German headquarters. The town was really a 
little city set high in the mountains, with good hotels, 
and many shops and little cafes scattered about. These 
received a flattering business from the boys whose pock- 
ets held their first pay for three months. 

Wesserling is a pleasant memory. There was a large 
rambling hotel and there were many officers who were 
hungry and thirsty and there was a large, rambling wait- 
ress named Louise. She was of pleasing appearance and 
she had an unlimited capacity for work. She spoke only 
French and German. Our restaurant French, which later 
became so exquisite, was undeveloped at that time. Pri- 
vate Max Lander, always willing to oblige, translated one 
or two orders for her and thereby greased the wheels of 
commerce. I can still see the powerful and perspiring 
Louise, hours later in the gloaming, dashing from table 
to table and leading Max firmly by the hand. 



CHAPTER V 



INTO THE TRENCHES IN THE VOSGES 

The battalion moved on June 20, and the divisional 
headquarters was established at the same place when the 
division moved to the front later. The night before the 
battalion Avent ahead, Maj. Comfort had a meeting of 
his captains in his room and told them in effect that while 
it was a new kind of war, the battalion would follow its 
principles learned long ago, to stick to the traditions, to 
keep clean, be courteous and always willing to learn. 
He instructed that it was to be seen to that all men bathed 
and cleaned up before going into the trenches. 

That march on the night of June 19 from Wesserling 
to Bussat is already beginning to take on the moss and 
ivy of tradition. It was a killing hike on the men, who 
carried full pack up a switchback mountain road. 

Each man carried more than 60 pounds of equipment, 
and some of them several pounds more. One man, I re- 
member, quarreled and grumbled all night long about 
a 25-pound bag of machine-gun ammunition which he had 
been detailed to carry. He was always just about to 
throw it away, and a dozen times he swore fervently that 
he would not carry it another step even if they court- 
martialed him and shot him, but he arrived at camp at 
4 the next morning with it. Private Bob Hoard carried 
his own pack and rifle, and the pack of his bunkie. That 
was a classic feat of endurance and strength, for the dis- 
tance was nearly 10 miles, and it was up hill all the way. 

The weariness and the gloomy forests along the moun- 

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44 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

tain side, the occasional clouds which blew against the 
mountain or the dashes of rain all tended to dull the 
keenness of perception, but every man felt the thrill of war 
when at some point on the black road, it became sure to 
him that the rumble of distant thunder was what he had 
half suspected all the time. It was The Guns. They were 
growling away at one another up yonder where we were 
going. After all the months of work and training, it had 
come at last. The War was just ahead. 

Toward the end of the march, the rumble disintegrated 
into its component sounds. The bellow of each gun could 
be heard and occasionally the valley would fill with a 
rush of sound as some big-calibered piece turned loose. 

Each succeeding unit had a similar experience, but the 
Second Battalion of the 138th felt very proud that it had 
been the first to make the grade. The experience of all 
units was much the same, the trench systems and dugouts 
were much alike, and the story of one battalion is the 
story of every other. 

In the days that followed, the Thirty-fifth Division 
learned many things about war and how it is waged. In 
the De Galbert subsector, where the first men of the Thir- 
ty-fifth went, they found the line held by a very tired 
French regiment, the Nineteenth. It was a meeting of 
the East and the West, a joining and clashing of old world 
and new world ideas. These French had been but a few 
days in the Vosges, but they had been four years in the war. 
Our men had not been in the war yet, but they had been 
training for it for nearly a year, they had sweated at 
Doniphan, had sailed thousands of perilous miles through 
the blue sea water, had ridden and trudged their way 
across France, and here they were at the trenches, in easy 
rifle range of the foe. So why not let the fighting begin? 



INTO THE VOSGES TRENCHES 45 

**No, it is much better to lie quiet," the French com- 
mander said. *'If we do not bother the Boche the Boche 
will not bother us, and we can rest and hold our ground." 

''Hell's bells and forget-me-nots," the Americans would 
reply. ''That's a fine way to win a war! Let's go right 
through them! We can raid those trenches, drive the 
enemy back, and with proper artillery help, push right 
through to the Rhine Valley." 

*'But to what good end?" the patient French would 
ask. "The war will not be decided in these hopeless 
mountains. It is in the fertile valleys of the Somme, the 
Aisne and the Marne, it is in the Champagne and in Pi- 
cardy that the war must be fought. The high command 
does not desire a battle here. The high command has 
many battles in progress with which to worry. We could 
do the Boche no great harm even if we drove him out of 
the Vosges. These mountains have little strategic im- 
portance." 

"Well, what sort of an old soldiers' home is this we 
have been sent to? We are not wood choppers or moun- 
tain goats. We did not come here looking for a pleas- 
ant resort to spend the summer." 

' ' No, my men are not so old, ' ' the French commandant 
said. "I am not nearly as old as I look and in a little 
while we will be quite fresh again. Soon, I am sure, we 
will be withdrawn and our American comrades will be 
put in charge of this line of trenches. Then you can make 
battles at will. A week ago we were fighting on the 
Chemin des Dames. We lost 65 per cent of our men. 
The regiment lost 42 officers, among them our Colonel 
and two Majors, killed. The Lieutenant on your left was 
a Sergeant but yesterday. He probably will offer us 
champagne presently to celebrate his promotion. At any 



46 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

rate, new Lieutenants sometimes do that. All that we 
wish to do here is to rest for a little while, show your 
troops the way about the trenches, receive our replace- 
ments, work them into our companies, and then return to 
the great battle, wherever France needs us most. ' ' 

The battalion slept in barracks at Bussat after they 
reached that camp about 4 in the morning after the great 
hike, rested the next day and at night two companies 
went into the trenches. The relief was a sort of half- 
relief, as half of the French soldiers staj^ed in the front 
line. A strong point, for example, would be manned by 
16 French poilus. Eight of them came out and eight re- 
mained in. Eight Americans joined them. 

Here a peculiar thing was observed. It was a dark 
night. The trenches were close together and no lights 
could be shown and there could be no talking except in 
whispers. Four Americans would be put in a dugout with 
four Frenchmen, a dark, wet place it would be, and they 
would have no word of common speech. Four others would 
be assigned to stand sentry duty with four other French- 
men. The next morning at breakfast time the warmest 
friendships would have been established. They slapped 
one another on the back and swapped cigarettes and pooled 
rations. It was a great night for the cordiale. 

The trenches, as they were seen by the light of the fol- 
lowing day, were far from charming. They had been 
located when the French made an advance into Alsace 
the first year of the war. When they stopped they dug 
in, and the gradual improvement of the defenses had 
built up the trench system. There was no such thing as 
parallel lines, and sometimes you could not tell exactly 
where the enemy's first line trench was. 

In front of our trenches was the inevitable tangle of 



INTO THE VOSGES TRENCHES 47 

barbed wire wrapped around or tied to posts and stumps 
and trees, or to wooden or steel frames like overgrown 
saw-bucks. These would be thrown into the mass to 
strengthen places suspected of weakness. These masses 
of wire were usually as high as a man's waist and some- 
times higher than his head. Never less than 10 feet wide, 
they usually were 40 or 50 feet, and at places where 
changes or other necessities had arisen, one would find a 
band of wire 100 or 200 yards deep. Behind this might 
be a trench or passage, probably invisible from the en- 
emy's position, and back of the trench another tangle 
of wire. 

The trenches usually were deep enough to conceal a 
man standing upright, but sometimes one had to stoop to 
keep below the parapet. The trenches would swing in 
near together at places, as that sensitive place at the top 
of Hilsenfirst where they were but 30 yards apart or 
spread apart 300 or 400 yards, if the lay of the land made 
such a distance better for the combatant who placed his 
trench last. On the top of Hilsenfirst we had a camou- 
flaged sniper's shield set above the trench, and through 
the hole in the middle of the steel plate, you could look 
through the tangle of wire right down into the German 
first line trench, but you never saw any Germans. They 
stayed in their dugouts by day and went through visible 
parts of the trench only at night. 

On one occasion some Ozark lads threw rocks at and 
into a German trench until the enemy machine guns opened 
furiously. 

Communication with the rear was through trenches 
which set in at angles to the front-line trenches. On both 
the German and our sides, these always were shielded 
from observation, well camouflaged if there was possible 



48 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

visibility, and they were so constructed as to permit the 
passage of carriers with ammunition, rations, or cans of 
coffee. In our sector in the Vosges, the mountains were 
so steep that at times the trench was nothing but a fortified 
and defended stairway. 

The men had difficulty in understanding the elaborate 
precautions against discovery in the Vosges. Kilometres 
back of the line when a movement of troops was made, 
even through a dense forest and at night, for the purpose 
of discipline strictest orders were enforced. All conversa- 
tion must be in a whisper. The men were not allowed 
to smoke, and singing also was forbidden. On one of 
these hikes through a dense forest and on a pitch black 
night, a pack mule relieved his tortured soul by lifting 
up his voice in song. He probably was thinking of Mis- 
souri and home. The soldier leading the mule patted him 
on the neck and said **Shut up ! there don't nobody know 
we're up here except the Boche." 

By July 1 we had a brigade in line, under the command 
of the Thirty-third French Army Corps. The sector was 
called in proper military language ''the Benoit and De 
Galbert subsectors of the north sector of the Wesserling 
sector," and its geographical location was east of the 
town of Wesserling. The regimental and brigade head- 
quarters were in barracks and dugouts built by the 
French on the sides of the mountains soon after they re- 
conquered the territory three years before. Supplies 
were brought to the foot of the mountain by train stand- 
ard or narrow gauge, and much of the rations came up 
the mountain side in the baskets of an aerial tramway 
which started from Kruth and ended at Bussat. From 
the distributing points in the mountains wagons could 
haul the provisions to nearly all battalion and company 



INTO THE VOSGES TRENCHES 49 

headquarters, and those inaccessible in this way were 
served by pack mules. 

Beyond the German lines we could look down into the 
little valleys and from the observation posts three little 
deserted Alastian towns could be seen. 

We had great admiration for the French intelligence 
service when we learned how many of the German tele- 
phone and telegraph wires back on the German side of 
the trenches had been tapped. The second day after we 
had entered the trenches, the French commandant was noti- 
fied that a message had been sent to the German rear 
from the front saying, ''The Americans entered the 
trenches at 3 o 'clock in the morning. ' ' So we knew that 
they knew. 

It was not long until we knew that they had tapped 
our wires also. An American soldier was killed at mid- 
night, and headquarters notified. At noon, another mes- 
sage was sent from the front saying that the body was 
being brought back. Headquarters replied that the fu- 
neral would be at 3 p.m. at the military cemetery. At 
3 precisely, the Germans shelled the cemetery. 

It was at Mitlach that this funeral was held. The dead 
man was a private in F Company of the 139th. Chaplain 
Myron S. Collins preached the funeral. The discourse 
was short but eloquent. It was to show that long life 
was not the most desirable thing in the world. A life 
short and clean, which ended gloriously in service for 
one 's country and humanity was a better thing, the Chap- 
lain said. Just then the first German shell whined over 
and exploded very near. Burying squad, listeners and 
preacher all dived for cover. The adherent of the long 
life still had many votes. 

The French spoke of headquarters always as ' ' Poste de 



50 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXEEMONT 

commande," and it was usually, even in orders, abbre- 
viated to ^'P. C." This term took hold and became uni- 
versally used. No one spoke of Capt. Smith's headquar- 
ters, but always of ^'Capt. Smith's P. C." 

For most of the first month the French corps kept the 
command, but by July 27 the French doubtless decided the 
outfit could stand alone, so they gave the Fecht sector 
into the hands of the General commanding the Thirty- 
fifth. The area was that already held with the Garibaldi 
subsector added. Gen. Traub took command of the divi- 
sion, headquarters were kept at Kruth, the new territory 
was taken in hand, and the recurring series of duty and 
rest were continued as before, except that rest periods 
were shortened. On Aug. 10 the south sector of the 
Gerardmer sector was added, and the whole stretch of 
line was called the sector of Gerardmer, at which beauti- 
ful place division headquarters established itself. A nar- 
row gauge electric railway ran from Gerardmer to Col-de- 
Schluct. The full sector was between 30 and 35 kilome- 
tres in length, probably the longest divisional sector in 
the line. 

Troops which moved north and went into new parts of 
the line found a different kind of country. There were 
fewer of the dense forests which had spread over portions 
of Hilsenfirst and the adjoining mountains, and there was 
more smooth greenness to the hills. This section of the 
country in peace times had been a summer playground 
for rich Alsatians and Germans. Even the Kaiser him- 
self, it was said, had a castle somewhere about. The hold- 
ers of each different piece of trench show^ed you a differ- 
ent building in the distance and assured you it was one of 
the summer seats of Wilhelm. 

Two regimental P. C.'s were at little lakes deep in 



INTO THE VOSGES TRENCHES 51 

the hills. Round, cup-like things they were, with water 
of great depth and icy cold. Summer villas built about 
them in peace times had long since been rocked up and 
concreted to furnish protection. Occasionally the enemy 
gunners in their methodical way would try to drop shells 
on the P. C. and some of them went into the lake mth 
spectacular effect. 

It seemed to be a sort of understood thing that P. C. 's 
of higher officers were to be shelled only in special cases. 
We always knew pretty well where the enemy command- 
ers ' were, and they seemed to know where ours were. If 
they shelled our Colonel, we shelled their Colonel, or if 
they tried to get our Brigadier-General we tried to get 
theirs. 

Now the artillery, while as a rule not conspicuously 
modest, do not like to have visitors of high degree com- 
ing around at odd hours asking to see the guns fired. 
They did not blame the visitors, but the Colonel or Gen- 
eral who permitted the visit. Usually the visitor was 
some officer passing through. So they would fire the gun 
for him after working out on the map the exact location of 
the enemy Colonel's P. C. After a few rounds had been 
fired they would stand hy waiting for the telephone call 
from the Colonel of their OT\m outfit. He would say, 
'*The Boche is shelling my P. C. Can you silence his 
battery?" Visitors to batteries in the Vosges were very 
scarce late in the summer. 

Even the Chaplains were not immune from the attacks 
of the jokers. One of these men of religion one day in 
the Vosges was so unwise as to go near the front line 
without a gas mask. The soldiers immediately filled him 
with horrible stories of the persistency with which the 
Boche was gassing the line and of the violence of the 



52 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

gas. The Chaplain explamed that he had no mask. The 
men said they were sorry that they did not have one to 
lend him, but that he would probably be safe if he took 
proper precautions, as the gas then being used was very 
heavy and clung closely to the ground. Therefore, if the 
Chaplain, upon hearing a gas alarm, would immediately 
climb a tree he could save himself from disaster. It was a 
bad day for gassing. It seemed to the Chaplain that he 
would no sooner descend from one tree than someone up the 
line would yell *'Gas." He climbed eight trees that day, 
and not until he got home did it occur to him that he had 
not heard a single shell explode, but he could not be- 
lieve that the men were kidding him. 

When the Americans came to the Vosges, the trenches 
were in the positions established more than three years 
before when the French invaded Alsace and dug in Avhen 
stopped. The opposing armies had seemed to agree that 
the decision would be gained to the northwest, on other 
fields of fame, so they sent tired troops to the Vosges to rest 
or filled the line with territorials. A few shells were sent 
over each day, a few infrequent raids were made at night to 
learn what troops were opposite, wire was kept in good 
shape and trenches and dugouts were maintained in good 
repair, but little beyond this was done. The great war 
was allowed to rage elsewhere. No. men were sacrificed 
in this part of the world. 



CHAPTER VI 



THE TRENCH RAID AT HILSENFIRST 

Americans changed the quiet Vosges sector to a fairly- 
lively one. They had men to be trained, battalions to be 
blooded, schemes to try and nerves to test. How were 
they going to do it? 

It was on July 6, 1918, that the men of the 35th Di- 
vision had their first fight, and they won it. It was a 
glorified trench raid of 250 men, and all the settings 
joined to make the scene one of impressive grandeur. In 
the battle line from Switzerland to the sea, I never saw 
a field more magnificently ordered for the pageantry of 
battle. 

This was in the High Vosges, that land of the sky to 
which the division's destinies had carried it. The pe- 
culiar detached existence we led in the high hills made 
life seem unreal in many ways, with the most certain and 
the material things being an occasional lazy bellow of 
artillery or the vicious crackle of a machine gun. We 
were on another stratum of human existence. Connec- 
tion with the usual level of earth on which people lived 
was by the wire cables of the aerial tramway or by the 
trucks or ambulances which sometimes wound their way 
to the top. 

Patches of forest were spread over the mountains. The 
pine, spruce and fir trees rose straight as arrows, some- 
times a hundred feet. From the top, the mountain would 
descend sharply and sometimes break into a precipice 
and end in a wall of a canyon far below. Sometimes the 

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slope would permit a steep grazing field. The region was 
like those mountains to which Kim followed his lama. 

Rain storms would blow up quickly and as quickly 
clear away. After these storms a sky of perfect blue 
would have a few fleecy clouds scudding across it and 
the hot sun would fill the whole beautiful land. On other 
days there would be a sky of intense blue with the burn- 
ing sun known in high altitudes. Still other days would 
be filled with blown white clouds which would hit the 
mountains and drift over the summits in mist. 

When there were clouds in the west and the air was 
clear about our own mountains, there would be a sunset 
to rival those of Arizona or Italy or Alaska. 

Across the barren, forlorn top of Hilsenfirst, the twin 
trenches ran. The mountain was held, half and half, by 
the opposing armies. On our side the communicating 
trenches, on the western slope were lost in a forest a 
little way below the top. On the German side the moun- 
tain was bare and the slope sank sharply to the second 
trench which lay across the saddle ridge which connected 
Hilsenfirst with Steinmauer. Steinmauer, another high 
mountain, was strongly held by the enemy. From the 
sides of the saddle connecting Hilsenfirst and Steinmauer 
the fields dropped sharply to the valleys and to the south 
was the pleasant town of Lautenbach, while to the north 
were the villages of Colmar, Blankerstan and Muelbach. 
To the east of Steinmauer was the valley of the Rhine. 
From all of these towns the heights of Hilsenfirst were 
visible, but the towns were deserted except for a few per- 
sistent old people. This brow of Hilsenfirst was like a 
great stage, facing the Germans. It might have been 
planned for a gigantic show for the assembled hills to 
witness. 



THE TRENCH RAID AT HILSENFIRST 55 

As the sun was setting after a cloudless day July 6, 
1918, the brow of Hilsenfirst w^as pitted with an iron pox. 
Every battery in range was pounding it and the burst- 
ing of shells was a steady roar. The rank fumes of high 
explosive and shrapnel blew away in ugly clouds, when 
through the dust and tangle of war there marched toward 
the front ot the stage two lines of men. Steady, sure and 
slow, they advanced through the smoke past the shell- 
torn wire and out to the open. It was *'H" Company 
of the 138th Infantry registering for the division on the 
fighting field. 

French batteries for miles around thundered their ap- 
plause. German guns pounded the crest in rage and 
hate, and the air was sibilant with the disdainful hiss of 
machine guns. 

The play had begun. The guns were the orchestra, 
the sky was the proscenium arch, and it was the part of 
our actors to advance to the front of the stage, pass 
through the footlights which would be bursting shells, 
and play their parts all the way do^vn the two aisles, 
which were the enemy's communicating trenches. 

To not many was it given to see this brave show. Some 
scores of German machine gunners had the orchestra 
seats, some dozens of German observers were in the bal- 
cony on the slope of Steinmauer, some hundreds of Ger- 
man troops were in the dugouts in the low saddle of the 
connecting ridge, while from the wings, Americans hid- 
den in the grass or wire watched their comrades sally 
forth. On the mountain tops for miles around other Amer- 
icans watched the artillery as it flamed like fireworks, 
rivaling and finally eclipsing the gorgeous sunset. 

Five days before the raid H Company had been taken 
out of the line to a well protected slope several kilometres 



56 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

in the rear, and a trench system as nearly as possible a 
duplicate of the one to be attacked, was constructed there. 
The engineers designed the practice trenches from airplane 
photographs. Here the raid was rehearsed under com- 
mand of Lieut. Wm. H. Leahy, who was to lead it, and the 
Lieutenants who were to assist him. 

The rehearsals and the raid itself were under the gen- 
eral direction of Maj. Comfort, who commanded the bat- 
talion. Col. McMahon commanded the regiment. 

The objects of the raid were to take prisoners and ma- 
terials to identify the units opposing us, to overcome all 
opposition and establish our supremacy, and to destroy the 
enemy's dugouts and defences, and return to our lines. 

On the German side of the line from either side of the 
brow, communicating trenches led from the front line 
trench backward to join in a V, some 800 yards down the 
steep side of the mountain. In the middle area of the V, 
along both branches, and just below the point, it was known 
that there were German dugouts, strong points and pos- 
sibly stores. 

There was an artillery preparation of 45 minutes and 
it was of a thoroughness and efficiency that I would not 
have thought possible in those mountains. 

How the great number of guns which opened at 7:45 p. 
m. July 6 ever were got up the hills in such positions 
as to range on that mountain is still a mystery to me. 
They opened with a roar behind the line and almost at the 
same time came the crash of their shells on the German po- 
sitions in our front. They pounded the points our men 
were to enter, the high explosive tore great paths through 
the barbed-Avire entanglements, and at the end of the prep- 
aration they lifted and laid their shells on the enemy bat- 
tery positions to do as much as possible toward reducing 
the opposing fire. 



THE TRENCH RAID AT HILSENFIRST 57 

From the beginning of the bombardment to the end of 
the raid our machine guns whined away constantly. We 
were using the French St. Etienne (called familiarly *' In- 
sanity Ann) but with whatever gun and on whatever 
field, we had no better troops than our machine-gun bat- 
talions, which had been the old Second Missouri, or the 
machine-gun companies with the infantry. 

They played their part well, these machine gunners 
who are the stormy petrels of war. When a bombardment 
is on, everybody but the machine gunners takes refuge in 
the dugouts. Even the party soon to make a raid takes 
cover, waiting for the ''zero" hour, but the machine gun- 
ners stay in their hazardous positions outside, and play 
their venomous spray upon the points indicated in their 
orders. 

It did not take the German guns long to answer our 
artilleiy. Their fire was aimed at the top of Hilsenfirst, for 
the German officers knew the preparation indicated that 
was the spot at which the raiders would come across. Our 
men had been taken to the top of Hilsenfirst before the 
bombardment started, and placed in dugouts there. At 
8 :15 p. m. they were led out by the Lieutenants to our 
front line trenches, a place of magnificent terror, there to 
crouch until the ' ' zero ' ' hour. 

That was the hardest time of all. Scores of German guns 
were shelling the brow of the hill just outside and there 
was no protecting shelter of a dugout roof above them. 
Immense shells hurtled over them with the swish of an ex- 
press train, hundreds of other shells broke just in front 
of them beyond the wire, there was the constant hiss of 
machine-gun bullets, and, almost as terrifying, there was 
the constant roar of gun and shell. Every officer and man 
knew that just as soon as he climbed out of the trench he 



58 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

would be in the face of all that current of fire. All watches 
had been synchronized, and as the hand moved nearer to 
the set time the strain grew tenser. One man watching 
the face of his wrist watch in the last few minutes twice 
saw it disappear from sight when shell-thrown earth 
covered it. Every man who went over the top that evening 
knew into what danger he advanced. 

As the men waited three French airplanes, flying low 
and seemingly indifferent to the rain of shells, come out 
like war eagles from their eyries back in our mountains, 
and flying straight and sure, lifted over the crest of Stein- 
mauer and went on over the German gun positions and 
into the valleys beyond. Our waiting men cheered the 
fliers through the smoke and crash of shells. 

Lieut. John Moll and his scouts who had cut the wire 
the night before, showed the way through the gaps, and 
the fighting men went out on the field. Lieut. Leahy was 
in command of the raid. With him on the branch of the V 
on our right were First Lieutenant Oliver W. Spencer and 
Second Lieutenant William F. Sweeney. On the other 
branch of the V was Second Lieutenant William S. Bryan 
with a platoon and a half, and Sergt. George 0. von Land, 
with half a platoon. First Lieutenant John E. Mitchell 
had charge of the 22 moppers up. 

The lane in the wire was some 100 yards from the en- 
trance to the communicating trench, and the men walked 
over the high bald brow, through shell and machine gun 
fire, with superb calmness. Barring the tense waiting un- 
der the storm of noise raised by the cannonading, this was 
perhaps the most trying time of the raid, the moving out 
to the brow of the mountain, swept by all machine gun 
crossfire which could be concentrated there and beaten by 
all the heavy guns which could be directed against it. 



THE TRENCH RAID AT HILSENFIRST 59 

No man wavered, or if he did, the mass courage of the 
platoon used as a community supply, picked up his spirits, 
and they moved steadily on to the brow, over it into the full 
view of the enemy territory and down the steep declivity 
to their objectives. 

Spencer and Mitchell led out their commands, and be- 
hind them came Leahy and Sweeney. On our left Bryan 
led the way with von Land's party next. Into the tor- 
rent of fire the men marched like veterans. Some went 
down, and the stretcher-bearers gathered them up and took 
them back. The riflemen pressed ahead at the set speed ap- 
pointed, and with a calmness and courage which could have 
been excelled by no troops in the world. Down the moun- 
tain side they went, some in the trench, others on either 
side on the surface above, every German machine gun in 
range trying desperately to play upon them. 

As the raiders went down the hill at the opening of the 
advance the German trench mortars were throwing their 
torpedoes known as ''Flying Pigs" at the American lines, 
and the admiring travelers from the Middle West strolled 
along through the open field pleasantly looking up at these 
engines of death hurtling over them. 

As the line moved out, I noticed one fine young fellow 
who seemed full of wonder and interest at his first sight 
of battle. A shell broke just in front of him and he fell. 
I had never seen him before and I never saw him again, but 
at his funeral the next day I learned that he was Private 
Clarence Walker. We came from the same town and his 
grandfather had been orderly-sergeant in my grandfather 's 
company in the civil war. 

Spencer's objective was the dugouts lying below the 
point of the V, but as he passed another cluster of dugouts 
on the way down, he stopped to bomb them, just to get go- 



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ing properly and to loosen up the throwing arms of his men. 

Mitchell and his moppers-up came charging down the 
hill jealously. 

' ' Here, you quit that ! ' ' Mitchell shouted. ' ' That 's my 
objective. Get on down the hill where you belong." 

Spencer went on down the hill, bombed his dugouts, but 
found no prisoners. They had escaped or had been killed 
by the artillery. Mitchell took the job of handling the 
dugouts nearest him, and sent Sergt. Michenfelder with 
two men to clean up those in the middle of the field. He 
sent Corp. Omar Carroll with five men, including Me- 
chanic William Hand to work on the dugouts farther up 
the trench. Mitchell got no prisoners. All the Germans 
he encountered showed fight and all were killed with pistol 
shots or hand grenades. Carroll and his party had great 
luck. They took eight prisoners and got back with five of 
them. One died of wounds and two were killed while try- 
ing to escape. They had fighting all the way, and killed 
more men than they captured. 

After working through the dugouts at his own place, 
Mitchell moved up to where he had sent Corp. Carroll, but 
he left on top of a dugout, which had not yet taken fire, 
Private Kohm, to watch for any who tried to escape. After 
running into Corp. Carroll's treasure trove of prisoners 
and booty, Lieut. Mitchell forgot about Kohm, who shouted 
at him from the top of the smoking dugout and asked 
whether he should stay longer. Mitchell told him to come 
on in a hurry, and then learned for the first time that 
Kohm was wounded in the face. Kohm refused assistance 
and walked to the dressing station. 

On the other branch of the V, Lieut. Bryan's band 
ran into a most active machine gun before they had pro- 
gressed far. Bryan ordered his men to take cover, and he 



THE TRENCH RAID AT HlLSENElRST 61 

gave Sergt. Errott the task of silencing the gun. Errett 
took a few men armed only with pistols and hand grenades, 
crept forward until in range, and killed the gunners and 
silenced the gun with hand grenades. He did not know 
he was winning the Croix de Guerre, but he was. Bryan 
had little difficulty after that. He followed his branch of 
the V to its junction with the one on the right, found 
Spencer there and with him started back up the hill. 

On the way back up the trying hill, Spencer did a clever 
thing, which doubtless saved many lives, not only of his 
own but of the other commands as well. As they were pro- 
ceeding up the same stem of the V down which they had 
come, the Germans with automatic rifles attempted a 
counter attack from a distance of two or three hundred 
yards. Spencer had his men throw smoke grenades in the 
direction of the enemy and thus formed a smoke barrage 
behind v/hich the Americans retired. Because the aim 
was thus destroyed, the casualties here were light, when 
otherwise they would surely have been heavy. 

Sweeney had little opposition in entering the field, but on 
the return, when he commanded the rear guard, he was 
called upon to beat off a counter attack made by automatic 
riflemen, which he did with his own automatic rifles. 

The entire operation w^as under the direction of Lieut. 
Leahy, and the success is a testimonial to the careful 
preparation which he supervised. Once the troops entered 
the field, each Lieutenant's outfit acted as a unit, and car- 
ried out its work without further direction from the com- 
mander. 

There was daylight to the end of the raid. They came 
back in the dusk, with the glow of the fading sunset on 
their grimy faces, and their hearts full of the exaltation 
of the fray. They were soldiers now, but not yet veterans 



62 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

who could quickly relapse into calmness from the high 
fervor of battle. They toiled up the long, steep hill with 
the steady, even gait of men returning from their day's 
work. The German batteries shelled the brow of the 
mountain incessantly, and poured high explosives and 
shrapnel into the German communicating trenches through 
which the Americans naturally would withdraw. The 
enemy machine guns fired incessantly. 

The retirement was, by order, without formation. The 
men straggled back with a strong rear guard. The wounded 
were carried by members of the band, whose work through- 
out brought praise from all officers, and men who saw it. 
These men without arms and without identifying brassards, 
took their stretchers onto the field, watched the work of 
their fighting comrades, and bore the wounded back up 
the steep slope. The position of an unarmed man on a 
battlefield is always a most trying one, but these musicians 
worked magnificently. 

When the Americans started back up the slope, every- 
thing inflammable in the German position was burning. 
The dugouts had been destroyed with the thoroughness 
which high explosive and incendiary hand grenades per- 
mit. Many of the men carried their rifles slung on their 
backs in the climb up the steep mountainside, although the 
machine guns were giving them a terrible lashing, and 
Sweeney's rear guard v^as having a lively tilt with the 
counter attack. 

The raiders carried trench knives lent by the French, 
long dagger-shaped weapons, with good grips and brass 
hilts. Upon the blade near the hilt was engraved '^Re- 
venge for 1870." Many of these were "lost." They were 
almost the ideal souvenir of the war, and what would a 
man desire more than to take home with him the weapon 
he first carried into battle? 



THE TRENCH RAID AT HILSENFIRST 63 

In Col, MeMahon's headquarters divisional staff officers 
had gathered to hear of the result of the first action in 
which the division had taken part. Besides the chief of 
staff and others from the division, the commander of the 
brigade and his staff were there. 

The men returning from the raid were required to turn 
in all souvenirs they had gathered, for examination by In- 
telligence Department. They were to be returned later. 
These men, still full of the glow and afflatus of battle, told 
Colonels and Generals just how it had happened, and gave 
the stories quaint embroidery. The soldiers just back 
from the fray used soldier language, and they talked to 
their chiefs as friends and brothers. Although they proud- 
ly reveled in the blood and dust which stained them, there 
was no condescension in their attitudes to the men of high 
commissions. 

Our losses were four men killed and 18 wounded. Seven 
prisoners were brought back, at least 25 of the enemy had 
been killed, and dugouts, defenses and communications 
in the selected area had been destroyed. According to the 
scales of war, it was a highly profitable raid. 



CHAPTER VII 



OTHER VOSGES FIGHTING 

The 137th regiment made a raid on the morning of July 
20, at Mattle to the north of Hilsenfirst. Company C went 
over the top at 4 :45 a. m., after an artillery preparation of 
45 minutes. They were opposed by a very heavy machine 
gun fire, but they pressed resolutely on to their objectives 
and destroyed the enemy's works and returned with five 
prisoners. They had three men killed and 10 wounded. 

Second Lieut. Thomas Hopkins of the 139th who was not 
a member of the raiding party voluntarily left his combat 
group and passed through an enemy barrage to aid a 
wounded soldier who had been caught in the wire. He was 
fatally wounded in assisting this man to cover. 

The French Government later bestowed the Croix de 
Guerre on the following officers and men for valor shown 
in the Vosges. The first 19 won them in- the Hilsenfirst 
raid: First Lieutenants William H. Leahy, John E. 
Mitchell and Oliver W. Spencer ; Second Lieutenants Wil- 
liam S. Bryan and William F. Sweeney ; Sergeants Albert 
Michenf elder, George 0. von Land, Charles E. Newman, 
Peter G. Errett, Fred L. Edwards and Albert E. Elsea; 
Corps. Clayton H. Moore, Walter E. Ficke and L. Bartels; 
Privates Herman Harrison, Elmer Grupe, Joseph Reynolds, 
Francis M. Fierce and Fred L. Laird. Of the 137th In- 
fantry, Capt. Roy W. Perkins and Lieut. Emil Rolfe re- 
ceived the same decoration, as did also Lieut. Thomas Hop- 
kins of the 139th. 

The months of July and August spent in the Vosges saw 

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OTHER VOSGES FIGHTING 65 

the culmination of the training period for the Thirty-fifth, 
for, while they held sectors of trench, there was no quieter 
place among the line except when the Americans stirred 
up trouble. The real business of the Americans was to fit 
themselves for the big fight which they knew they would 
get into some day. 

The training in the Vosges did not prove of great value 
to the men in the Argonne battle. There they learned 
trench warfare, but that form of fighting was finished. 
There were few places in the sector held by the division 
where it would have been possible to maneuver much more 
than a company of troops, and we were so near the enemy 
and under such constant observation that the few available 
open places could not be used, because such an assemblage 
of men would be sure to draw fire. Men in rest billets at 
the rear, where they went after a spell in the trenches, got 
some training, but it was not in the open warfare known 
of old, but in trench warfare. 

Quietude of sectors in a war such as the great one just 
ended is altogether comparative, and many men of the 
Thirty-fifth did not know how peaceful and serene was 
their summer home in the high mountains until they moved 
into other sectors, called ' ' lively. ' ^ In later days the men 
of the division came to know just how grim war could be, 
and the Vosges became in recollection a pleasant vacation, 
where the summer days were spent in the high, cool forests. 

But we left about 100 of our men there in the foothills 
of the Alps. They were killed in action, died of wounds or 
of disease or accident. I had not realized the number was 
so large until I came to count them up. It shows how 
heavy is the toll of war even in the quietest of sectors. 

The 60th Field Artillery Brigade, which was a component 
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66 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

the infantry depart and leave the big guns behind, reached 
England about June 1. It landed in Liverpool, and, after 
a stop of a week, proceeded to France, landing at Le Havre, 
and moving June 12 to Angers, where it received its equip- 
ment. From there it went to Camp Coetquidan for train- 
ing. Five weeks were put in there getting acquainted 
with the guns and perfecting technique, and on Aug. 14 
the artillery joined up with the division, which then had 
headquarters at Gerardmer. 

Up to that time all artillery behind the Thirty-fifth had 
been French. Under the French system, artillery units 
held their places in the mountains, because of the difficulty 
in moving guns into and out of the emplacements, and be- 
cause of the additional value a prolonged experience gave 
to the gunners in that difficult territory. 

The 110th Sanitary Train and the UOth Field Signal 
Battalion, though they had not traveled together reached 
the division at the same time, June 12, and joined up at 
Arches. 



CHAPTER VIII 



IN RESERVE AT ST. MIHIEL 

Pleasant, easy or comfortable days for the Thirty-fifth 
had now come to an end. The men had sworn mightily at 
the discomforts of the Vosges, and had been much disgusted 
with fighting above the clouds, sleeping in old French bar- 
racks, and wearing overcoats in mid-summer as the high 
altitude made necessary, a land where it was dusk at 9 :30 
p. m. and dawn at 3 :30 a. m. They were also vexed with 
those absurd and unseen officers in high places who would 
not let them fight. They wanted to walk through the Boche 
lines and right into Germany. 

A war of action had developed in the Marne Valley 
while the Thirty-fifth lay in the Vosges. The enemy had 
attacked on June 15 and had been stopped. The allied 
troops had attacked on July 18 and for the first time in 
four years, things had a very roseate glow. Gren. Pershing 
had applied for and obtained permission to reduce the 
salient above Saint Mihiel. The German army had occu- 
pied this position in 1914 in an attempt to flank Serrail 
who stubbornly kept the line of fortified hills which up- 
held Verdun. They are called the ^' Grand Couronne de 
Nancy.'' The Germans failed to flank Serrail but they 
had held onto the salient ever since. 

Many a time Verdun seemed the only rock which kept 
the Hun tide from sweeping over France, and the Grand 
Couronne de Nancy was what supported Verdun. The 
point of the salient left by the early operation reached to 
the town of St. Mihiel on the Meuse. 

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68 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

After the failure of the long and bitter battles against 
Verdun, where the Crown Prince's thin glory faded, the 
salient had no value to the Germans for offensive purposes, 
but as a part of the defense of Metz it was most valuable. 
The French had attempted to straighten the line, but the 
enemy held most tenaciously, for at the time, he still hoped 
successfully to attack Verdun. The field called Les Es- 
parges was one of the most sanguinary of the war. There 
France lost the flower of its new class of soldiers, youths 
who had just finished their training after being called to 
the colors. 

What degree of resistance the Americans would meet 
and what forces would be necessary to overcome it was un- 
known, but it was to be an all- American affair and plenty 
of men, munitions and guns were provided to take the sali- 
ent, however hard the enemy fought. Most of the divisions 
in the fighting were the older, well-tried ones. In support 
were other divisions ready to enter the fray, while behind 
them was the reserve, ready to go to the needed point. The 
35th Division was in the army reserve and its business 
was to be mobile and ready to strike wherever needed. 

Of course, none of the men of the Thirty -fifth and few 
of the officers had any idea of the operation to which they 
were assigned. Troop movements usually look very silly 
to the man in the ranks who has no knowledge of the un- 
derlying purpose. That is why confidence in higher of- 
ficers is one of the best sustainers of morale. The soldier 
should be able to say, ''Well, the old man is doing it, and 
he knows his business. I'm willing." One of the reasons 
morale usually is high in National Guard outfits is that 
the men know their officers and have confidence in them. 

The Saint Mihiel operation plans were guarded with 
great secrecy and knowledge of the purpose kept within a 



IN RESERVE AT ST. MIHIEL 69 

circle as restricted as possible. But our men suspected 
there was a hen on when the shuffling commenced. 

On Aug. 27, 28 and 29, those elements of the division not 
in the line were grouped about the town of Gerardmer, and 
on the thirty-first the division was relieved. The last ele- 
ments came out on the night of Sept. 2, and on the fourth, 
fifth and sixth the division entrained for what was known 
vaguely as the Rosieres area, some 100 kilometers away. 
That first of September was a notable day, although it did 
not appear so at the time, for it was the last time the men 
were to sleep under cover for more than a month, and that 
month the most trying in their histories. 

Few of the men had opportunity through that Septem- 
ber to remove their clothing, except to change underwear or 
socks. They were not able to do that often, possibly once 
or twice, for there was a chronic shortage of new stuff to 
change into. Very few of them had a bath that month. 

Rosieres-aux-Salines proved to be a pretty good sort of 
town in a pretty, little, flat valley. Headquarters was 
there, and the other sections of the division were scattered 
about the countryside. 

Then came days of waiting and policing and equipping 
and rain. Just about the time the pup tents were well set 
and drained and a fellow had a chance to make himself ap- 
proximately comfortable there would come the order to 
march. Everything was done by night in that period, to 
avoid enemy observation, and the feeling that something 
was about to happen was heavy in the air. 

Our men refused to take the St. Mihiel operation serious- 
ly. Once in the rain a corps inspector saw a sentry walk- 
ing his post carrying an umbrella. It almost threw the in- 
spector into apoplexy, and it did throw the joking soldier 
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70 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

The directors of the operation, sitting in conference back 
at Souilly, would look at their immense battle maps, and 
after calculating angles and distance for a while, one 
would say : ' ' It seems to me the field would be better bal- 
anced if the reserve was a little further down the valley 
here," and that would be discussed and finally agreed to. 
' ' Do it, " the commanding General would say. A code tele- 
gram would be started to the headquarters of the 35th 
Division, the pins indicating the reserve on the bat- 
tle map moved and the 'conference would proceed. 

At headquarters of the Thirty-fifth, as soon as the tele- 
gram was received, there would be much bustle and pre- 
paring of orders. Motor cycle orderlies would stream 
away in a deafening clatter, and soon in all the towns and 
fields where units of the Thirty-fifth were stationed, pup 
tents would be coming down, blankets rolled, packs made 
up, and at the given hour the men would fall in and the 
long column take up again the same old hike. 

It grew very, very tiresome, and the conviction that great 
things were soon to happen did not make the work easy or 
pleasant. There is a fearful monotony to marching, march- 
ing, marching. It is hard work. Making a pup tent of two 
shelter halves and setting it up in the rain is not a pleasant 
pastime, and there is a physical revulsion against the dis- 
comforts of living outdoors in the rain. 

The two or three weeks preceding the Argonne battle 
seemed very disagreeable. Knowing as we do now that the 
division was just about to go on the stage in one of the 
greatest dramas in history, does not help to gild those days. 
They were days of mud and rain and weariness, not com- 
plete exhaustion, but weariness which demanded sound sleep 
and there was no comfortable place to sleep. Soon the 
eyes of the world were to be upon this division and its 



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eight companion divisions, but that was a matter of not 
much interest. They had no stage fright. They wanted 
more grub and wanted it oftener and hotter, and they 
wanted a dry place to sleep and they wanted somebody to 
kill ''that damned bugler" just before time for reveille. 

The march of the night of Sept. 10-11 was into Tom- 
blaine, Jarville and Maron, which are suburbs of Nancy, 
but that beautiful city few of the men were able to see at 
that time. The next night the division marched again — 
through the edge of the city of Nancy and into the Foret 
de Haye, where they went into concealed bivouac. 

Those were trying times. The roar of the guns seemed 
very near, and the men knew that a big fight was on close 
at hand, and it was quite impossible to rest easy. Some- 
times they could see the flash of the guns, like distant light- 
ning near the horizon. At night enemy airplanes came 
over and dropped bombs on the forest, and a good part of 
the time it rained. The Missouri and Kansas doughboys 
found it difficult to comprehend the denseness of a com- 
mander who would let a good division like theirs lie out in 
the rain night after night and rust when there was a fight 
going on right close by that they might just as well be in 
as not. Really, Pershing ought to know better, they 
thought. 

As a matter of fact, the St. Mihiel affair proved very 
easy. The operation was tactically perfect, and the Ameri- 
cans crashed in at will. There was no occasion to call up- 
on the reserves, who had to content themselves with being 
present with a "willingness to serve." 

The part the Thirty-fifth played was not big, but it was 
very important. Gen. Pershing was able to order his com- 
bat battalions in whatever way he chose because he had a 
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72 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

the attacking force, even if it never moves a foot or fires a 
shot. The 35th Division was the essential, unseen force be- 
hind the line. It was ready to fill any gap the enemy might 
make, or to take the place of any weakening or shattered 
force in front of it. 

I believe the division would have been better prepared 
for the Argonne fight if it had had a place in the line in 
the St. Mihiel operation. Its losses would have been light, 
and it would have then gone into the Argonne with battle 
experience and with the assurance and confidence which 
the other divisions gained at St. Mihiel. 

On Sept. 15 new orders came, and the air began to 
charge again with the electricity of coming action. That 
night the division moved to the region about Charmentois. 
The most of the infantry moved in motorbuses, those im- 
mense lumbering cars which were stripped from the 
streets of London and Paris at the beginning of the war, 
and which had rambled all over the North of France since, 
hauling soldiers to many threatened fields, carrying 
wounded back and at times playing the part of trucks and 
taking supplies forward. 

In the Charmentois area the division came under the 
Third Army Corps, and, as a result, was in the Second 
French Army for tactical control and supply. At this 
stopping place, which also was out of doors, the air bombs 
became more frequent. 

The Sixty-ninth Brigade moved up near Auzeville on 
the night of Sept. 19-20, and the next night the remainder 
of the division went to the neighborhood of Grace-le-Comte 
Farm and into the woods east of Beauchamp, where the 
division relieved the Seventy-third French Division in 
charge of the sector. Because of their familiarity with 
the sector and that the relief might not be noted by the 



IN RESERVE AT ST. MIHIEL 73 

enemy, the French outposts remained in position. Thus 
there was a screen of French between the Americans and 
the enemy. 

The Sixty-ninth Brigade held the line, with the Seven- 
tieth in support. The formation was for each regiment of 
the Sixty-ninth to have two of its three battalions in the 
line, each battalion having a machine gun company at- 
tached. One battalion and a machine gun company was in 
reserve to each regiment. This formation was maintained 
up to the morning of Sept. 26. 

Our division was now just behind the scenes, the stage 
was set, and our actors ready. The Sixtieth Brigade of Ar- 
tillery was in its place, and tuning up its guns. That was 
about all they were allowed to do before the great artillery 
preparation began. 

Major Barngrove was put out of action on September 24. 
His task had been to get forward the ammunition for the 
big artillery preparation. He was establishing new dumps 
near Neuvilly. The orders were that the main road could 
be used only at night. The magnitude of the preparations 
being made for the advance jammed this road with traffic 
from every conceivable source. He found that it would 
be impossible for him to get his quota of shells into posi- 
tion by September 25. At that time it was thought that 
the advance would begin September 25. He asked per- 
mission to work by day. This involved the very gravest 
danger, as the road was under constant shell fire by the 
enemy guns and under observation of their balloons and 
airplanes. He finally appealed to the corps ammunition 
officer and obtained permission to work by day. 

Four trucks were disabled, but the men on the ammuni- 
tion train hitched on to them and towed them to the dumps, 
unloaded the ammunition and took the trucks back, all un- 
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74 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

Major Barngrove was wounded and evacuated but not 
before he saw that everything that had been ordered for our 
artillery was in its place. 

The Thirty-fifth was a division of men formerly 
of the National Guard, in which they had had a certain 
training in open warfare, the kind of war for which the 
American soldier is primarily, essentially and everlastingly 
fitted. They had been more than a year in the Federal serv- 
ice, undergoing intensive training nearly all of which was 
designed to fit them for the peculiar conditions incident to 
the fixed and established conflict known as trench warfare. 

They had had two months of trench service in the Vosges, 
but the Vosges was a territory where their officers could 
not train them for open warfare, however anxious they 
might have been to do so, and however keenly they may 
have felt the troops needed such training. Now the last 
battles of the war w^ere about to begin, and they were to be 
fought, as many persons had suspected they would be 
fought, out in the open. 

Trench warfare and open warfare are as unlike as night 
and day and they have some of the same diiferences. 

In trench warfare there is the fiLxed series of trenches, no 
movement, seldom seeing the foe, fighting and raiding near- 
ly always in the dark, the specialized work of throwing 
hand grenades, sapping, mining and counter mining, keep- 
ing wire fields in repair and maintaining listening posts 
for the detection of the smallest movement of the enemy. 
Formations are not used and there is no maneuvering of 
troops. 

Open warfare is a war of movement with the field con- 
stantly changing, and the endeavor always uppermost to 
drive the enemy back and off the field. Troops try to keep 
in sight, or surely in touch with the enemy, the action 



IN RESERVE AT ST. MIHIEL 75 

continues day and night except for some special cause, 
the weapons are artillery, machine guns and the master 
tool of all, the rifle, to which issues in modern wars al- 
ways come for settlement. There is no burrowing in the 
ground, except when a soldier scoops out for a foxhole 
to sleep in. There is no sapping or mining, wire-works are 
passed over and forgotten and the field is won or lost 
above ground and out in the open. 



CHAPTER IX 



PLANNING THE ARGONNE DRIVE 

The offensive started by American troops in the Argonne 
on Sept. 26 was a part of the great battle plan of Gen. 
Foch. It was perhaps the most essential piece on the whole 
battle line of similar length. The allies had been pinching 
the enemy out of one place and luring him into another, 
until his lines were in what military men considered an un- 
tenable position. He had adventured too far to maintain 
himself at such distance from his bases against the allies 
strengthened as they were in men, munitions and morale. 

The operation had been set, tentatively, for the spring 
of 1919, but the ease with which the St. Mihiel salient was 
reduced, the obvious weakening in the enemy before the 
British in the north of France, and the success of the allied 
attacks which followed the retreat of the foe from the 
Marne, all combined to convince Gen. Foch that he had an 
excellent opportunity to force a decision in what was left 
of the fall of 1918. His strategy, as daring in 1918 as it 
had been in 1914 at the first battle of the Marne, lent itself 
with particular fitness to such an alluring scheme. So he 
set the forces of the allied armies to the task of preparing 
for the Avar's last great battle. 

At the conference of allied leaders when the great gen- 
eral attack was planned, the French commander in chief 
asked : 

' ' Where will the American army fight in this battle 1 ' ' 

* ' Wherever you wish it to fight, ' ' Gen. Pershing replied. 

Gen. Foch then indicated the line between the Meuse and 

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PLANNING THE ARGONNE DRIVE 77 

the Argonne, and asked if they would take that part of the 
line. Gen. Pershing assented. It was the part of the line 
where the heaviest fighting undoubtedly would be if the 
battle plans worked out, and if the judgment of the mili- 
tary men proved true. Every officer present knew that. 
The allies were at a point in the operation where a continua- 
tion of their strokes would drive the enemy out of France, 
or he would suffer disaster, possibly annihilation of his 
armies in the field. To get his armies out, he must main- 
tain his communications, the four-track railroad at Mezieres 
in front of us, and the business of the Americans was to 
threaten, and if possible to cut his communications. 

It was a field where there was a certainty of the hardest 
fighting. It was probable that the Germans would bring 
their best battalions there to make the vital fight. As a 
consequence, there could be no spectacular gains on the 
American front. Every foot of ground would be con- 
tested bitterly, and those who advanced must pay the price. 
While on other fronts, large and glittering gains would be 
made in a day, it would be against a retreating foe, and he 
would be retreating all the more hurriedly because of the 
pressure the Americans were bringing on his vitals. The 
enemy could not retreat on our front. If he did, we would 
cut his railroads and the French and British to the west 
of us would capture his armies. It was with a full under- 
standing of what was ahead that the American commander 
took this post of high honor, where hard blows were to be 
given and taken, and where there "svas little to gain. 



CHAPTER X 



OFFICERS CHANGED ON EVE OF BATTLE 

It was about 5 o'clock on the evening of Sept. 22 that 
the 35th Division Headquarters received Field Order No. 
57 from the first Army Corps, thus learning officially for 
the first time of the projected Argonne-Meuse offensive. 
This was a document of 62 typewritten pages. The Di- 
vision issued its Field Order No. 44 just 48 hours later, at 
5 p. m. Sept. 24. The Division P. C. was in dugouts on the 
Southern edge of the woods on Les Cotes de Forimont. 

The battle order was considered a model of conciseness, 
but it was a voluminous thing at that. The advance was to 
be made by nine divisions on a 16-mile front at the same 
moment, 5 :30 a. m., after artillery preparation of varying 
duration and density at various parts of the line. The first 
Army (American) which was under command of Gen. 
Pershing, in person, had three corps in the line, each com- 
posed of three divisions. The First Corps, to which the 
Thirty-fifth was attached, was on the left. The Thirty- 
fifth was the right hand division of the corps. It had about 
two miles of front. On the Thirty-fifth 's left was its corps- 
mate, the Twenty-eighth Division. On the Thirty-fifth's 
right was the Ninety-first Division of the Fifth Corps. 

The country lying in front of the Thirty-fifth, and 
through which it was to advance, was as difficult as any 
on the American front, and in some ways, the task was the 
most desperate of all. Two kilometers out from the step- 
ping off place was the Hindenburg Line most heavily wired 
and prepared for defense in every way the four years of 

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OFFICERS CHANGED ON EVE OP BATTLE 79 

war had taught the Germans. I am writing now of what 
was known before the battle. 

Just in front of the Hindenburg Line, the defensive 
works mingling with and making it part of the line, was 
Vauquois Hill, a place of sad and sanguinary memory. 
The French had never been able to retake it at the price 
they were willing to pay, and many troops had been lost 
in fruitless attempts. A high French officer told me their 
losses there probably totaled 40,000. It was known to be 
thoroughly mined, to have excavations and tunnels of great 
length for quick communication and transferal of troops 
from one point to another. It had once been covered with 
trees for the most part, but these were now merely shat- 
tered stumps, so much artillery fire had been addressed 
to it. 

Vauquois Hill (pronounce it Vo-quaw, please,) was con- 
sidered the strongest point in the German line between 
Verdun and the Aisne. 

The Ouvrage d'Aden was known to be a strong point 
alongside the secondary road, and the towm of Cheppy 
was strongly organized for defense. 

Students of French history will remember that when 
the French revolution was brewing and occasionally be- 
coming threatening, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette en- 
deavored to escape from France, and that they got as 
far as Varennes, where the Postmaster's son, consulting 
the monarch's picture on a coin, recognized the royal 
fugitives and stopped the carriage at the bridge, turn- 
ing them back to Paris and, eventually, to the execu- 
tioner. The 35th Division's left flank was to go through 
Varennes and by the eastern end of the bridge. The 
Twenty-eighth had the other side of the river. 

The other towns we were to take, Cheppy, Very, Char- 



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pentry, Baulny, Exermont, Fleville, etc., were typical 
French villages, which in peace times had been the homes 
of the farmers tending the adjoining acres, and the little 
shops where they traded. Each village, of course, had 
a church of more or less importance. Since the begin- 
ning of the war, there had been few if any civilians in 
the territory. Those who could had escaped into the 
French lines. Those who could not had been sent further 
north and east by the German invaders. 

The course laid out for the Thirty-fifth was in the 
valley of the Aire with occasional hills, and sufficient 
clumps of trees and brush to afford excellent cover for 
machine gun nests. As a rule, it was open country. The 
main road from Neuvilly to Varennes, and thence through 
Baulny to Exermont had been an excellent one, a na- 
tional highway, before the war. 

Shortly before the battle radical changes were made 
in the officer personnel. Brigadier-General Nathaniel F. 
McClure, who had commanded the division for more than 
a month in the Vosges, and who commanded the Sixty- 
ninth Brigade up to Sept. 21, was relieved on that date, 
and Brigadier-General (then Colonel) Louis M. Nuttman 
put in command. The 138th Infantry had had many 
leaders. Col. Edmund J. McMahon, who brought it over, 
was relieved July 25, Col. George P. White taking his 
place and holding it until Sept. 14, when he was relieved 
by his Lieutenant-Colonel, Henry W. Parker, who was in 
turn displaced by Col. Harry Howland the day before the 
fight. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Carl Ristine took over the 139ti 
Infantry Sept. 21. A regular army Colonel was on his 
way to take this job, but he did not get there in time. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Channing E. Delaplane took com- 



■^m 



mand of the 140th Infantry on Sept. 22. Col. Frank 
Rumbold was relieved of his command of the 128th Field 
Artillery on Sept. 24, two days before the fight. Rum- 
bold 's health was bad, but he had held on grimly, hop- 
ing to command his regiment through the action. 

In making his reconnaissance Rumbold had worn his 
heavy field boots for five days and nights. While cross- 
ing a hill below Neuvilly on Sept. 23 one leg gave way, 
and he had to be assisted from the field. The divisional 
surgeon ordered that he be evacuated, and Lieutenant- 
Colonel Pim reluctantly sent Rumbold to a hospital in 
the rear. 

It was no new thing to Brigadier-General Charles I. 
Martin to lead men into battle. His had been a long and 
distinguished career. He was a sergeant in the Kansas 
Guard in 1890, and in 1898 he was a captain in the 20th 
Kansas volunteer infantry. His colonel was Frederick 
Funston. In the battle of Manila, he attacked with his 
company over an open road and his company's casual- 
ties were the heaviest in the regiment. Out near Calu- 
can, on one occasion his company had been thrown into 
the trenches to hold them for two days, and they held 
them without relief for six weeks. He came out of that 
war a major, and Funston a general. 

Gen. Martin is a quiet, studious man who excels in or- 
ganizing. His brigade had a staff organization which 
would continue to function whatever cog of it dropped 
out. The first impression of Gen. Martin is not always 
good. One may think him too quiet, or that he lacks force. 
But to look into his organization, and to examine the re- 
ports show the power the man carries behind his quiet 
front. 

He was the only National Guard general officer left 



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with the division, and so Avell had he handled his brigade, 
and so favorable were the reports on him, that it began 
to be rumored about that possibly this was another Fun- 
ston case, a National Guardsman who was so capable that 
the professional soldiers of the Regular army would have 
to acknowledge his worth and give him a fitting reward. 
Every attempt to unseat him had failed, and they had 
been many. 

While the division was moving toward the Argonne, 
Martin was studying the terrain. The French liaison 
officer attached to his brigade had fought over the iden- 
tical territory on which the Thirty-fifth was to attack. 
They spent all their spare time at the maps, until Martin 
knew just what was behind each hill, what each valley con- 
tained, how the roads ran, and all the things essential to 
fighting a battle on that terrain. 

Sometime before the battle, Lieutenant-Colonel Dela- 
plane was attached to the 70th Brigade headquarters. He 
was a regular army officer. Soon after his arrival I was 
at brigade headquarters one day, and an officer of the 
staff took me aside and said: 

"They are trying to 'get' the old man again. They 
have sent Delaplane down here as a spy." 

''What does the general say about it?" I asked. 

"He has instructed us all to take him in as one of the 
family, give him our fullest confidence, and help him all 
we can," he said. 

My personal belief is that Delaplane was sent down 
there to find some reason for relieving Gen. Martin, but 
being a capable and honest officer, he had reported that 
Martin should not be relieved, and that he was handling 
the brigade wisely and ably. 

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OFFICERS CHANGED ON EVE OF BATTLE 83 

had studied the ground before his brigade so intensively 
that he was probably more familiar with it than any 
other officer in the corps. Rumors concerning him grew 
more numerous. He was to be taken to corps headquar- 
ters and given a staff job; he was to have a division to 
command; he was to be sent to the rear, to make sure 
that there would not be another Funston case. 

On Sept. 21 orders came for him to report to corps 
headquarters. Gen. Martin did not know what was to 
happen further than that he was taken away from the 
brigade he had commanded, and away from the Kansas 
troops he had led so long. The report spread through the 
brigade. He called his staff together, told them of the 
order, instructed them to give the same loyalty and in- 
telligent aid to his successor that they had given to him, 
and started away. 

As the general came out of his quarters, many officers 
stood about, and among them Delaplane, the newly ar- 
rived officer of the Regulars. Tears were running down 
his cheeks and he said over and over as he shook hands 
with the General: 

''I can't understand it, I can't understand it.'' 

Then Martin knew. He was going to the rear. He 
was not to be permitted to lead his troops again into bat- 
tle, or any other troops. He was done, finished. The 
blind fight against the Kansas general was being carried 
to the very opening of the great battle. I can conceive of 
no action more poorly advised or shorter sighted. A fine 
brigade was taken out of the hands of a strong, able man, 
of abundant physical powers to withstand the strain and 
stress of battle. The brigade was given to Col. Kirby 
Walker of the regular army, whose powers and prowess 
will be shown in due time. 



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As General Martin drove away, hundreds of men and 
officers of his brigade stood beside the road in the forest 
to say *' good-bye" to their old commander. One reason 
given for relieving Col. McMahon in the Vosges was that 
he wept while standing beside a soldier's grave. If 
tears are valid cause for relief, that whole brigade should 
have been sent to the rear on Sept. 22. 



CHAPTER XI 



THE PLAN OF BATTLE 

The plan of battle was for the infantry to advance in 
column of brigades, with the Sixty-ninth Brigade leading. 
The regiments were to advance abreast within the 
brigades, each with one battalion in the front line, one 
in support and one in reserve. From each of the two 
rear battalions two companies were sent forward and at- 
tached to the front battalions. Two of these were to mop 
up Vauquois Hill and the other two were to perform a 
similar service for the Rossignol Wood. 

The machine gun companies were scattered about in 
advantageous positions. One battalion and one com- 
pany were in position on Hill 253, Mamelon Blanc and 
La Maize, a similar number were in position at Buzemont, 
two companies were in the rear of the support line ready 
to take position on Hill 239, while four companies were 
attached to the front line battalions ready for the ad- 
vance. 

A company of engineers was to go with the leading 
brigade to cut wire, two platoons were to accompany the 
moppers up, and one company, less one platoon was to 
accompany the tanks. The 344th Tank Battalion was 
distributed along the front ready for the advance. 

The First Aero Squadron was attached to the 35th 
Division for the action, and it was provided that at 
least one plane was to be constantly over the division 
sector. 

There were four of our observation balloons over the 

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86 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

35th Division sector on the first day of the battle, but 
so -anmistakable was the German control of the air that 
three of them had been sent down in flames before noon. 

One squadron of cavalry was assembled south of Aubre- 
ville, with scouts assigned to accompany the rear elements 
of the infantry. 

The Sixtieth Field Artillery was reinforced by the 219th 
E. A. C. and the 282nd, 317th and 451st E. A. L., and one 
battery of light artillery was to go with the advance to 
be used as forward guns. These are French artillery 
regiments, the first one light, and last three heavy. 

Two days' "iron" (emergency) rations were issued to 
all men, and the night of Sept. 25 found everybody on his 
toes. 



CHAPTER XII 



''LET'S GO!" 

Nine American divisions were in the Meuse-Argonne 
line ready to attack on the night of Sept. 25. They were 
divided into three corps. Each corps had, besides its 
three in the line, a division in support and a division in 
reserve, so that we were 15 divisions strong going into 
battle. Four hundred thousand American fighting men 
heard the artillery prelude to the attack. It was the 
greatest army America ever has sent upon the field. 

The battle line extended from the Meuse River at a 
point a few kilometres above Verdun, westward to a point 
in the Argonne Forest, where it connected with the French 
Fourth Army which was attacking on our left. 

At 11:30 p.m., Sept. 25, our artillery opened a decep- 
tive fire to the east of the Meuse and to the Avest of the 
Argonne Forest. Between these two active spots lay the 
defenses against which the Americans were to move. 

The 35th Division had been in the Forest of Hesse 
the most of four days and nights. On the after- 
noon of the 25th, a large hot meal was served to the men. 
Afterward, all packs were rolled and placed in a pile. 
Lieutenants commanding platoons called their Sergeants 
and Corporals together and explained the nature of the 
action which they were to fight the next day, as far as the 
officer knew it. Detail maps of the country were shown, 
and the noncoms instructed to fix as much of it in their 
memory as possible, but maps were not given to the non- 
coms. 

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The days and nights of waiting in the forest had been 
Tinder almost constant shell fire, and there had not been 
a great deal of sleeping. After dark, the infantry moved 
forward through the woods in approximately the forma- 
tion they were to employ the following day. The men 
lay down among the big guns and tried to sleep. Each 
one, according to orders, first loaded and locked his rifle. 

Each infantryman carried his rifle, bayonet, steel hel- 
met and gas mask. He had 250 rounds of rifle ammuni- 




THE LINE-UP FOR THE BATTLE 



tion, carried in a belt, and two bandoliers, each one SAvung 
over one shoulder and under the other arm. On his back 
was his combat pack, in his pack carrier. This contained 
his raincoat, if he was not wearing it, his mess-kit and 
two days' ''iron ration," which usually was two cans of 
corned beef and six boxes of hard bread. This is the im- 
proved form of the famed hardtack of the Civil War, 
and as issued now is a thick cracker, palatable and full 
of nutrition, but hard. A few men had ^ loaf or half a 



'^LET*s go!" 89 

loaf of the excellent white army bread fresh from the 
baker. This usually was carried on the rifle with the 
fixed bayonet run through it. All carried a full canteen 
of water, about a quart. Occasional details carried 
Stokes mortar ammunition, four shells to a man, each 
shell weighing 10 pounds, 11 ounces. Infantry also car- 
ried ordinary explosive grenades, gas grenades, rifle 
grenades and incendiary grenades, but the most of these 
were thrown away. 

The cannonading, which commenced before midnight, 
was intended to deceive the enemy as to the place at 
which the attack was to come. It was hoped that he would 
assume it was to be east of Verdun or west of the Ar- 
gonne, and that he would begin at once the work of shift- 
ing there some of the good divisions he was known to 
have back of the 16-mile front on which the Americans 
were to attack, and which lay between these two points. 

At 2:30 a.m. all the other artillery concentrated be- 
tween the Meuse River and the Argonne Forest Avent into 
action. 

All adjectives fail to give even a fair impression of 
the awful grandeur of such artillerying. No combination 
of words is effective. It seemed that for a while the lid 
of Hell had been pushed back a little space. The long 
line on either hand leaped into flame, the horizon was lit 
by the bursting shells, and from the trenches where the 
enemy had lain so long there rose the many colored rock- 
ets with which he appealed to his guns for succor. What 
each signal meant I do not know, but they plentifully 
told the tale of his distress. 

Twenty-six hundred guns were firing at 3 a.m., every 
one with a carefully laid out mission, and with the rest, 



90 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

the Sixtieth Brigade of Field Artillery delivered its quota 
of hardware as promptly as the seconds clicked off. 

The long-range guns were aiming at the concentration 
points back of the German line, cross roads and such places, 
where moving troops might reasonably be expected to 
be. If the enemy was trying to get his men to the points 
indicated by the early bombardment — that is, to the east 
of Verdun or to the west of the Argonne forest — long- 
range guns playing on concentration points might inflict 
punishment on him there. Or if he tried to bring men 
into our sector, they w^ould come under our fire at the 
same places. 

At any rate, this harassing fire, as it is called, would 
slow up any movement he attempted. Other guns were 
throwing gas shells on the enemy artillery. If they 
managed to put out any of the enemy gunners, so much 
the better, but the main advantage was to slow up their 
fire, for men must work slowly when wearing gas masks. 

The men of the Thirty-fifth got little sleep, although 
they had a hard day's work ahead. It was their first 
very big artillery action, and they were lying, figura- 
tively, between the wheels of the guns. For three mortal 
hours the artillery pounded away. High explosives rid- 
dled the wire and destroyed dugouts. 

The guns of the 35th Division fired more than 40,000 
shells that day, nearly all of them in the three hours be- 
tween 2 :30 and 5 :30 a.m. 

At 5:30 a.m. the infantry Avent over all along the line. 
There was no breakfast and little ceremony about it. The 
lieutenant or sergeant who was leading the platoon, when 
his watch told him the zero hour Avas but a few minutes 
off, would give the order: ''Prepare to advance." 

The men would crawl out of their foxholes, pick up 



''let's go!" 91 

their raincoats, look to their rifles, and wait. At ''H" 
hour the platoon leader would say: ''All right, let's 
go," and leading the way, he would set his face to the 
north and move out, his men following. 

In front of the 35th Division, as in most other 
places, a rolling barrage from the 75s preceded the men 
100 meters, which for all practical purposes is 100 yards. 
The men were to advance at the rate of 100 meters in 
4 minutes. This barrage kept up to 7 :40 a.m. when it 
ceased. 

The advance of the Thirty-fifth was in column of bri- 
gades with regiments abreast within the brigades. Within 
the regiments the formation was column of battalions. The 
Sixty-ninth Brigade, commanded by Col. Louis M. Nutt- 
man, was to lead the way. His brigade front was to be as 
wide as the divisional front. The brigade consisted of the 
137th and the 138th Infantry. The 138th was to have the 
right or eastern half of the divisional area, while the 137th 
was to cover the left half. 

The 138th was commanded by Col. Harry S. Howland, 
who had taken the job the day before, Sept. 25. He had 
just been advanced to the rank of Colonel, and had been, 
as a Major, acting as Divisional Intelligence Officer. 
The 137th was led by Col. Clad Hamilton who had been 
its commanding officer since April 20. 

Both regiments sent their advanced elements over the 
top at the tick of the watch. Once fairly in the field it 
became apparent that the going was to be very bad. 
The autumn frequently brings to that part of France a 
thick, clinging fog which only a bright sun or a strong 
wdnd can disperse. The heaviest fog of the season had 
descended on the valley of the Aire that morning. At 
first thought, it appeared that this might be of assistance 



92 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

to the Thirty-fifth, for it would conceal the advancing 
troops from the waiting machine gunners, but very soon 
it became apparent that the maintaining of liaison would 
be most difficult. 

Lieut. Bancon, flying over the sector, dropped a message 
at headquarters at 8:15 a.m., saying: ''Impossible to find 
line. Our sector is a solid white snoAv-bank of clouds." 



CHAPTER XIII 



VAUQUOIS TAKEN— THE 138TH BEFORE CHEPPY 

We will first watch the 138th Infantry. Orders were 
not to attack Vauquois Hill frontally, but to proceed 
around it, one party to the right and one to the left, and 
to attack it from its flanks, which would be the eastern 
and western ends of the hill. 

This job was attended to by Rieger's battalion of the 
139th Regiment. When he learned of the plan of bat- 
tle, Rieger volunteered to mop up Vauquois and Bois de 
Rossignol. There was some severe fighting, but the dug- 
outs and trenches on the slopes were thoroughly cleaned 
and many prisoners taken. 

Rieger figured that he had four good companies in this 
battalion. E and P were better marksmen. G and H 
were better with the bayonet. He decided that when they 
went into battle with two companies in the fighting line 
and two in support, he would work E with H Company 
and F with G Company. He thought in this way that he 
would have two teams of equal strength. 

In a little open field north of Nancy, at the beginning 
of the St. Mihiel drive they talked it over and decided 
that Capt. Wilson, commanding G Company and repre- 
senting F and G, was to lead off. Capt. McQueen, com- 
manding H Company and representing E and H, was to 
support. They trained for battle in that order. The mo- 
mentous decision was made by flipping a franc and call- 
ing heads or tails. It was in this manner that Capt. Wil- 
son obtained the privilege for his companies of mopping 

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94 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

up Vauquois Hill. Capt. McQueen, with E and H, mopped 
up Rossignol Wood. 

Never before or afterward did the 35th Division find 
a place better defended than Vauquois. It was the re- 
sult of four years intensive work by the Germans. Among 
the many good men killed on this slope was Lieut. Mal- 
colm MacDonald who made up in dash and daring what 
he lacked in stature. When he joined the guard he 
weighed 102 pounds and a kindly examining board, ob- 
serving his earnestness, had written down the weight 
as 122. 

Lieut. MacDonald was not in the first line in the forma- 
tion, but he asked for that assignment, and it was given 
to him. He was killed leading his men up the smoking 
slopes of Vauquois Hill. His father, Major Clay Mac- 
Donald, was at the time at Division Headquarters only a 
few kilometers away. 

The 138th went to the right of the hill, which is less 
than 1000 feet long and 100 feet high. Not knowing, of 
course, that a fog of such density was to descend upon 
the land, orders had been given to the artillery to throw 
smoke shells at the foot of the hill to conceal our troops. 
This intensified the gloom, and when the Third Battalion, 
Capt. Bottger commanding, which was leading the way 
got into the open and through the paths they had cut 
in our wire, it was found that no landmarks were visible, 
and that it was necessary to travel altogether by com- 
pass. 

It was possible to see 40 yards at times, but bej^ond 
that the fog shut in like a wall. A squad of men would 
be observed marching ahead, but a moment later they 
would entirely disappear, and there would be nothing 
to see but the opaque gray bank of fog. It was impos- 



VAUQUOIS HILL TAKEN 95 

sible to tell friend from foe 25 yards away. Maj. Sauer- 
wein led his battalion, the First, on next, as a sort of 
second wave. It had disappeared from sight in the gloom 
when the headquarters detachment set out immediately 
following. This detachment consisted of Col. Howland, Lieut. 
''Chuck" Venable with the signal section of headquarters 
company, Capt. Reinholdt with his intelligence squad, 
some 20 band men detailed as runners, the regimental 
headquarters outfit, Capt. Ehrhardt, the French liaison 
officer, Capt. Lyons of headquarters company, and others. 
Back of the headquarters came the Second Battalion un- 
der Capt. Gunther Meier, brigade reserve and under di- 
rection of the brigade headquarters. A half hour's time 
was betw^een battalions. 

At the risk of adding further to the confusion, it seems 
best to let the narrative continue for a distance with the 
headquarters detachment, although two battalions were 
ahead of it. 

Howland learned that Sauerwein's battalion had been 
held up for 15 minutes by our divisional machine guns. 
They had taken position and played awhile on the slopes 
of Vauquois Hill to discourage any ambitious Boche there 
who might contemplate a sortie. In spite of this delay, 
there was no sign of the battalion when headquarters 
got to the point, so Howland rightly deduced that they 
were getting along all right, but Sauerwein was going 
ahead too rapidly for headquarters to keep in touch with 
him. 

Headquarters, pushing ahead through the fog, guiding 
by the compass and steering 30 degrees west of north, 
picked up two German prisoners from whom they learned 
that regiments of the Prussian Guard were in the sector. 
This confirmed intelligence reports that the advance 
w^ould meet the Kaiser's best troops. 



96 t^ROM VAUQUOlS fltLL TO EXERMOlSr'f 

About 8 a.m., while the fog was as thick as ever, the 
detachment came upon the Varennes road, and were able 
to figure their approximate position on the map. About 
the same time a message by runner was received from 
Sauerwein saying that he was progressing rapidly, travel- 
ing 30 degrees west of north. 

Howland realized that this was not sufficient data to 
keep him in touch with his troops, so he pressed ahead. 
There had been firing on his left, apparently not far 
away, and the map indicated that it came, first from the 
slopes of Vauquois and later from the Bois de Rossignol. 
The detachment picked up a dozen or so men from the 
Ninety-first Division, who had become lost in the fog, 
and later a part of a platoon from A Company of the 
First Battalion of the 138th, and still later part of a pla- 
toon of B Company of the 129th Machine Gun Battalion. 

By 8:30 it was apparent that the detachment was in a 
position which possessed serious possibilities. Howland 
then put his augmented detachment in combat formation 
and sent it forward, under Capt. Reinholdt, to reconnoiter 
toward Cheppy, with instruction to take up position as 
soon as the enemy was sighted and to send back word 
immediately. Within 10 minutes Reinholdt sent back 11 
prisoners, one of them an officer, all from crack guard 
regiments. From them it was learned that the guards 
held the line of defenses before Cheppy, that they were 
in force, and that their orders were to hold at all costs. 

Bursts of machine-gun fire were becoming more fre- 
quent around the headquarters detachment, and one was 
heard spitting away methodically almost to the south. 

''That's a Boche gun behind us. Colonel," Venable said. 

"That's in our rear," Howland answered. "Surely 
it can't be a German gun." 



VAUQUOIS HILL TAKEN 97 

'*Is that the sound of a German gun?'* Venable asked 
Capt. Ehrhardt. 

'^ Without a doubt," answered the calm Frenchman 
from Chicago. 

The headquarters detachment was up against it. A 
makeshift outfit, mostly noncombatant, it had penetrated 
the fog until it was alongside the Hindenburg line, and 
the line was held by the Prussian Guard, the best troops 
in the German empire, and, according to the prisoners, 
they were in a tangle of woods and steel and wire which 
bristled with machine guns. To make the case absolutely 
desperate, enemy machine guns had opened in the rear 
of the Americans. They had penetrated the German de- 
fenses and were surrounded. The headquarters detach- 
ment was ordered to take cover in the ditch alongside 
the road, and under protection of the bank left by a 
small cut in the side of the hill. Reinholdt placed his 
men in a brush-covered ditch on the right of the road. 
The fog Avas clearing away rapidly in places and the ridge 
and copse before Cheppy were coming out of the fog like 
the landscape on a photographic plate in the developing 
chemicals. Ahead, to the left, was a wayside shrine, a 
broken cross shaded by three low trees. 

A German battery opened fire. It appeared to be very 
near and it dumped high explosives on the road where 
the 138th headquarters had taken cover. Probably a 
dozen men were killed at the first round of shells. Simul- 
taneously enemy machine guns in the front and on both 
flanks opened on the spot. Howland and what was left 
of his detachment made the best of all available cover 
and waited for supports. Above them in the fog, in- 
visible, but quite near, they heard an airplane roar past. 

While Col. Howland thus lay in dire straits, he had 
three battalions somewhere in the field, whose location 
and activity should now be made clear. 



CHAPTER XIV 



NELS WOLD'S GLORIOUS DEATH 

The Third Battalion, commanded by Capt Bottger, had 
led the way. When it stepped off and pushed ahead, it 
was through the dense fog, and guiding was difficult and 
liaison, that is keeping in touch with other units and main- 
taining communication with superiors to the rear and 
units on either side, was almost impossible. There was 
much incidental and sporadic firing from the front and 
both flanks, but the battalion pushed ahead, each com- 
pany acting virtually as a unit, because, in the dense fog, 
it was impossible to maintain a battalion formation or to 
know where the other companies were. 

Lieut. George M. Hagee, who was acting intelligence 
officer of the battalion, advanced with a squad of 10 run- 
ners. He was to send one back each half hour with re- 
ports to regimental headquarters. This system proved of 
little or no value, as the runners were wounded or became 
lost as the}^ returned, or if they were able to return to 
the appointed places they would find that the headquar- 
ters to which they were to report had moved forward, 
and when it finally was reached, if ever, the news borne 
by the runner was stale and valueless. 

Lieut. Hagee and his squad were stopped before Cheppy 
in the fog by machine gun fire. This was some time be- 
fore Howland got there. Capt. Harry Thompson came 
along pretty soon with M Company, and Hagee told him 
what he thought of the machine guns opposing them, 

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VICLNITY OF CHEPPY 



100 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

and tried to borrow a platoon for the purpose of trying 
to clean them out. Tliompson said his orders were to go 
ahead, and that he did not have time to stop for machine 
gun nests which did not directly oppose his progress. 
Hagee had no orders, Thompson pointed out, so he could 
wait where he was until support came up. He refused to 
lend Hagee the platoon, and went ahead. 

Thompson had managed to keep his company together 
in the advance from the jumping off place below Vau- 
quois, and when he got into the zone of fire in front of 
Cheppy, his outfit was virtually intact. He had lost a few 
men and had picked up a good bunch of prisoners, so he 
knew that further ahead, somewhere in the fog, was the 
Prussian Guard. His objective on the map was a ridge 
well beyond Cheppy. When he met Hagee on the little 
bridge just outside of Cheppy and was asked to delay his 
forward progress to clean up the machine gun nests on 
the side, he figured rightly that that was a job for some- 
body else later, and that his part of the battle was to 
press on through the gloom to his assigned position. 

To the right was the little wood, all except the near 
edge invisible in the fog, but it seemed a seething mass 
of enemy machine guns. On the left was the unknown 
little valley of the creek, and the rattle of machine guns 
there told how it was protected, but nothing could be 
seen. Dead ahead was Cheppy, also invisible, but pre- 
sumed to be the stronghold. Thompson took M Com- 
pany straight ahead into Cheppy. This action, one of the 
most reckless in a day full of reckless deeds, was also one 
of the most successful. Good luck marched beside the 
Captain. The fog, which everywhere on the field 
was working units into hopeless confusion, was almost 
as thick as night in Cheppy. The company passed by 



NELS wold's glorious DEATH 101 

the very ports of pill boxes and dugouts, which at the 
time they believed to be deserted. 

They v^ere, in fact, doubtless all armed and manned, 
but in the dense fog, the German gunners were unable to 
tell who the advancing troops were until they were vir- 
tually on top of them, and then it was wiser to keep very 
still and let them pass by. The machine gun emplace- 
ments, pill boxes and open ones, were designed to repel 
an attack from the front, and they would have been of 
little use in fighting an enemy who already had them sur- 
rounded. The guns could not be turned toward the rear. 
If they had opened fire and revealed their presence, M 
Company would have cleaned them quickly with hand 
grenades. 

Thompson pushed ahead and had no serious fighting 
until he had reached the far edge of the town. He 
probably was out of Cheppy and had a bag of prisoners 
by the time Col. Howiand and headquarters detachment 
were stopped on the other side of the town. 

Close behind M Company, as it went over the top, was 
L Company of the same battalion. Sergt. Ross M. Koen, 
commanding the third platoon, endeavored to keep within 
50 or 100 feet of M Company because the denseness of 
the fog made it impossible to get any guiding data from 
the terrain. Within half an hour Capt. Clarence J. Sode- 
man and the first and second platoons were missing. T 
suspect that they had gone too far to the left and taken 
a course which carried them to the left of Cheppy and 
between Cheppy and Varennes. Koen's outfit picked up 
six prisoners before reaching Cheppy and a little farther 
on they took 80 more. These w^ere formed and started to 
the rear under Sergt. Grant of the fourth platoon, but 
the enemy, doubtless hearing the movement, opened on 



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them with machine guns and the prisoners scattered and 
Grant and his detail rejoined the command. Koen with 
his part of the company remained in touch with M Com- 
pany. 

Sergt. Joe Britton, commanding the first platoon of 1 
Company, was instructed to maintain liaison between 
the battalion and the 137th Infantry, which was on its 
left. Immediately after going over the top at 5 :30 and 
starting forward into the fog, the platoon lost contact 
and liaison with its own battalion and did not regain 
it until some time the following day. 

Sergt. Britton commenced to feel for the 137th, but 
failed to get them, and so he and Sergt. Eckhardt or- 
ganized the platoon into combat groups and proceeded 
forward as a combat patrol. About 11 a.m. they ran 
across Lieut. John Wingate, regimental scout officer, and 
about a dozen scouts. He attached the free-ranging first 
platoon of 48 men to his outfit and they proceeded in 
search of adventure. 

The little band thus adventitiously joined up in the 
gloom of the mist-filled field held some of the best 
mettle in all the great and gallant army which that day 
warred for the liberties of the world. 

Strangely met in the fog, there was but one officer 
among them, Wingate, and he had not been an officer 
long. Among the people who knew him, he was the best 
loved man in the division. He was well past 50, I would 
say, and I have no doubt that he perjured himself stoutly 
to gain admission to the army. He looked like the train 
robber of fiction, long drooping mustaches, and a sort of 
swaggering, undaunted air, which did not deceive you at 
all after you came to know him, for he had a sort of 
child-like faith, and a gentle, kindly heart of pure gold. 



NELS wold's glorious DEATH 103 

Sergt. Joe Britton commanded the platoon. He was a 
man of high daring, clear headed and a promising sol- 
dier. He had been given the difficult task of maintaining 
liaison between the two regiments of the division. This 
was not a task he was particularly keen about, but he 
was a good soldier, and he intended to fulfill his duties 
to the last button if they did not interfere with the fight- 
ing. 

Then there was Nels Wold, who came from Minnesota, 
but whose forebears must have sailed the seas in the good 
old days when every youth went a-vikinging, and every 
maid wore two long braids of yellow hair. And there was 
many another just as sturdy of heart and fit for just as 
high emprise. Behind old John Wingate was ranged as 
reckless a band of free companions as ever trod the glades 
of Sherwood Forest, and in their leather jerkins, they 
looked like Robin Hood's men. Somewhere there was 
higher command, but until it ordered otherwise, Wingate 
conceived it to be his duty to clear the fairway of the 
enemy that our troops might pass unscathed, and to inflict 
upon the enemy as much damage as possible. 

Wingate designing to inflict what damage he could, 
set about working his men into the rear of the German 
line that he might attack them in the rear. By the time 
they had done this the sun had eaten up the fog. They 
were on a hillside, and a clump of trees gave them con- 
cealment for the time. The whole field was filled with 
the din of crashing artillery and shells, near and far. 
On all sides, in the short view allowed them by the lay 
of the country, were clumps of bushes or trees, which 
doubtless held enemy machine gun nests or riflemen wait- 
ing for their prey. The nearest one suddenly spluttered 
out a machine gun burst. Wingate ordered his men to 



104 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

rush, it, and they swept into it as if they had been invited 
there to a banquet. The gunners were killed at their 
guns, and the weapons were turned against the next posi- 
tion to determine whether it would draw an answering 
volley. There was no one there, so the combat patrol 
moved on, always in the rear of the German line. When- 
ever a dugout was found it was bombed. A clump of 
bushes appeared which was so well placed that to rush it 
seemed impossible. 

Nels Wold suggested that he be allowed to investigate 
by cautiously creeping upon it. Wingate agreed, and 
putting his men under cover, waited for the Scandinavian 
to creep around to the rear of the position. It seemed a 
long wait, although it was but a few minutes. There was 
a rattle of shots in the thicket. Then three Germans with 
hands aloft walked out with Wold behind them, motion- 
ing his comrades forward. There had been only five men 
at the guns. He had killed two and captured three. 

The rangers carried on. They never grew drunk with 
the excitement of victory, but worked calmly and warily. 
How many gun positions, ambuscades, dugouts and sni- 
pers' posts they cleaned, I do not know, but they sent 
60 prisoners to the rear, and Britton estimated that the 
toll of dead Germans would have been seven for each 
American engaged. 

Five times that day, Nels Wold, volunteering each time 
and pointing each time to his increasing list of victories 
as the reason he should have the assignment, five times 
he went forth single handed against machine gun nests. 
Four times he killed or captured the gunners, took the 
guns and waved his companions that all was well. Each 
nest cleaned out was a great power for evil removed from 
the path of the American army. How many lives his 



NELS wold's glorious DEATH 105 

daring saved only Le Bon Dieu knows. The fifth time 
was the last. It was behind the camouflage screen along- 
side a road. He advanced alone, made an opening in the 
camouflage, and started through, when machine gun bul- 
lets got him. He fell inside the camouflage. The *'Big 
Swede" did not come back to the breached camouflage 
to wave his hand, and Wingate knew what had happened. 
He had every man look to his weapons, creep as near as 
possible to the machine gun nest and, from a kneeling 
start, to charge the guns. They went over without a 
yell or shout, like good workmen, and cleaned the place 
thoroughly. No prisoners were taken there. They car- 
ried Nels Wold's body out into the open, laid it straight, 
and by his side stuck up his rifle, fixed bayonet driven into 
the ground, that the burial squad might find him. Then 
they went ahead. 

Our republic devised a Congressional Medal of Honor 
as the reward of superlative deeds of daring, for gal- 
lantly beyond the call of duty and of such merit as to 
demand a conspicuous and special fame. Neither Gen. 
Pershing nor Gen. March can wear this medal, but Nels 
Wold won it and the general order bestowing it upon 
him has been read to every unit of the army overseas. 

There was many another deed of dash and daring. 
Sergt. Eckhardt believed the rifle grenade was a power- 
ful weapon. This is a bomb attached to the end of a 
stick. The stick is stuck in the rifle barrel and fired. 
Eckhardt and Private Hobart Howard extinguished two 
machine gun nests with this weapon. They attacked them 
simultaneously by wading and crawling through a swamp 
until they were in a good position to attack both at 
once. 

Corporal Louis Forbes, commanding one of the combat 



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groups, tried to take at least one prisoner in each nest 
or dugout lie raided. From this prisoner he extracted 
minute information as to the aext nest, and took ad- 
vantage of it in the attack. His toll of captures was 20 
German prisoners and five French soldiers captured by 
the Germans the night before, freed from a dugout prison. 

A German officer who had pretended to surrender, sud- 
denly drew his pistol to shoot Lieut. Wingate in the back. 
Corp. Noah La Brueyer leaped between them and firing 
his rifle from the hip, killed the German. 

Another German officer leaped from a ditch a few feet 
distant just as Private Harry Pierce was firing at a nest 
of gunners some distance further on. The German shot 
at Pierce, point blank and the bullet hit his thumb, went 
along the butt of the rifie and wounded him in the face. 
Pierce calmly turned his rifle and killed the officer, and 
then kept on with his squad, after one of his comrades 
gave him flrst aid. 

After Wold's death, Wingate 's riflemen careered ahead, 
seeking some new deed of chivalry which might advance 
them in the profession of arms. They found a bunch 
of enemy machine gunners and infantry, and they charged 
without preamble. About half of the enemy were slain, 
and the other half ran away. This was unusual. As a 
rule, the survivors surrendered. Wingate ordered a pur- 
suit. This took him, m less than half a mile, into the 
outskirts of Varennes, where a lively fight was going 
on. This was entirely out of his regimental area, he 
learned, and almost out of his divisional area, but being 
of a generous nature, he joined up to lend a hand and 
help out the other regiments, which were the 137th and 
the 139th. 



CHAPTER XV 



MAJOR SAUERWEIN FALLS 

We return now to the first battalion of the 138th, 
which formed the second wave of our advance. It went 
over the top close behind the third battalion. Maj. Sauer- 
wein was in command. Capt. Crist commanded A Com- 
pany, Lieut. Brightfield B Company, Lieut. Anderson C 
Company and Lieut. Brown D Company. 

On the way forward in the early advance, Maj. Sauer- 
wein and Lieut. Elzie McGinnis had a peculiar experience 
which startlingly gave them a strong taste of what was 
to come. In the enveloping fog they were moving for- 
ward through the rank grass which filled the valley, a 
field which, having been just back of the first line for 
at least three seasons, had seen no crops planted or har- 
vest reaped. 

The two men stopped for a minute to listen to the guns, 
and try to locate new machine guns by the sound. On the 
front and on both flanks the guns, hidden by the opaque 
fog, were whirring away like rattlesnakes. One could 
see possibly 10 yards and near at hand it was possible 
to see clearly. As they started forward again, a move- 
ment in the grass at their feet drew their attention. 
It was the path of a stream of machine gun bullets, com- 
ing from a mist-hidden gun on their left. The grass was 
melting away. Another step would have put them in its 
current. They backed up, found a ditch going their di- 
rection, and pushed ahead, after diverting the troops 
into their own path. 

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108 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

From the beginning liaison was very bad. The fog 
swallowed the first battalion, as it had the battalion 
ahead, and they pushed to the north, guiding by compass 
30 degrees to the west of north. Once through the wire 
each platoon had to do its own guiding, making contact 
with its fellows wherever it could, but relying mainly 
on its individual guide to get well forw^ard toward the 
objective as soon as possible. 

Sauerwein's battalion kept together pretty well, but 
guided more to the right than the third battalion had 
done. This brought them to the line of Cheppy at the 
right of the town. No other troops had passed that way 
and there was fighting most of the time. The nearer to 
Cheppy they came the stiffer the opposition grew and 
because of the all-enveloping fog each unit which ran 
into a fight, whether squad or platoon or company, had 
to take care of itself and fight its own action. 

Lieuts. Anderson, Rugh, Abernathy and Kobel all saw 
desperate fighting on the way up and Rugh and Aber- 
nathy were wounded. It was in a crossing of Baunthe 
Creek that Rugh got his wound when machine guns from 
the surrounding fog banks suddenly opened upon his 
advancing party. He fell into the creek. The water was 
more than knee deep and the banks which rose three 
or four feet above the surface of the water gave pro- 
tection from the traversing machine guns out in the fog. 
But Rugh was badly hurt. His men gave him first aid 
in the creek and then some of them stayed with him 
more than an hour. He grew w^eak and if they had not 
held his head above the water he would have drowned. 

When finally stopped before Cheppy, Maj. Sauerwein 
had all of B Company and parts of A and C Companies, 
probably as much as two platoons from each. 



MAJOR SAUERWEIN FAIiLS 109 

The advanced units of the battalion had captured two 
young German soldiers on the rise of the approach to 
Cheppy. They appeared to be signal corps men work- 
ing on wires, and their job probably was to watch the 
American advance and report on the progress by tele- 
phone to headquarters in the rear, or it is possible that 
they were artillery observers. The fog had been so thick 
up to this time that they Avould have been of little use 
as observers, but they had stuck at their posts and were 
picked up by the advancing elements. Sauerwein ques- 
tioned them, particularly as to the location on the map 
at which the capture took place, for in the dense fog it 
was impossible to make sure of one's position in this 
unknown country. 

The prisoners answered with apparent frankness, and 
said that Cheppy lay just over the hill. 

^'Then if we go right on up this road we will come 
into Cheppy?" the Major inquired. 

*'Yes, just go right ahead. It will take you right into 
Cheppy," was the reply. They did not mention that the 
ground between where they stood and the entrance to 
Cheppy was strewn with machine gun nests and gunners 
ordered to offer every resistance to the advance. 

Maj. Sauerwein was not deceived or made overconfi- 
dent by the prisoners. He sent them to the rear and or- 
dered his own men forward. 

By this time the sun was beginning occasionally to 
show through the fog like a ball of silver, and there was 
a general assurance that the day would clear up. It 
could be seen that there were broken clumps of trees and 
brush on either side of the road, and Sauerwein sus- 
pected that the enemy would have used these for machine 
gun shelters. 



110 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXEBMONT 

He ordered Sergeant-Ma j or Bacon to assign two bayo- 
net men to lead the way for the purpose of rushing any 
machine guns which opened at short range. Bacon as- 
signed one man to the task and, fixing his own bayonet, 
went forward to make up the team. 

Sauerwein organized his forces for combat, and went 
ahead, the bayonet team leading. Next was the Major 
with Lieut. McGinnis, who was in charge of the Stokes 
mortars at the beginning of the battle. Next were run- 
ners and incidentals, while the battalion was some 50 
yards in the rear. 

Suddenly out of the fast-disappearing fog in front, 
there came the crackle of many machine guns. They 
were very numerous and they were too far away to be 
rushed. 

''Take cover and give 'em hell!" Sauerwein shouted, 
and the men, both those with him and the main body fol- 
lowing, spread out, taking advantage of the inequalities 
in the ground for protection and opened rifle fire on the 
machine guns. 

One of the German guns, traversing over the dim front 
which it covered, feeling out and searching the scene, 
sent a score or more of shots into the ditch where Sauer- 
wein and McGinnis were. This was at 9:45. Major 
Sauerwein was hit in the forehead and instantly killed. 
In his hands were his message book and pencil. He had 
just started to write a message to send back presumably 
to advise the following units of his position and condi- 
tion. 

Two bullets caught McGinnis, one through each leg, 
but no bones were broken. He made tourniquets of his 
field glass strap, threw off all equipment and started 
to crawl to the rear as soon as he could. An apple or- 



MAJOR SAUERWEIN FALLS 111 

chard, Tintended for four years, was on the gentle slope 
of the hill. There was a slight ridge along the line of 
trees and a corresponding depression between the rows. 
Along this depression McG-innis crawled toward the dress- 
ing station. 

Just as he crept into the edge of the orchard, a German 
automatic rifleman in a big oak tree caught sight of him, 
and put another bullet through his leg, this time below 
the knee. McGinnis believes it was this man also who 
shot him first and who killed Maj. Sauerwein, but this 
is problematical. At any rate, the doughboys whom 
Sauerwein had led figured out about where the tree- 
sniper was, and even before the ground nests had been 
silenced, they had riddled the top of the tree with rifle 
bullets and the automatic rifleman tumbled through the 
branches and crashed to the ground, dead of the haK 
dozen bullets through him. 

The invisibility of the Germans was one of their strong 
points. Their camouflage was good, and they took ad- 
vantage of every possibility for concealment. Some of 
our men never saw a German except those who had sur- 
rendered. A typical experience was that of Sergt. C. G. 
McCorkle of E Company, of the 138th, who fought from 
the "jumping off" day up to the 29th, when he was 
wounded, but in all that time he never saw a German 
with a rifle in his hands. All he saw either had their 
hands high in the air, surrendering, or were using them 
to work a machine gun. 

Another man, he was a south Missourian and we spoke 
the same language of the Ozarks, said to me in the Char- 
pentry dressing station: 

''I've fought three days and I hain't seen a German 
yet while he was fighting. Now I got shot through the 
knee and I won't get me airy one." 



CHAPTER XVI 



CAPTAIN SKINKER'S BRAVERY 

A mile to the west of the scene of Maj. Sauerwein's 
last fight, the Colonel of the 138th and his headquarters 
detachment lay in a bad way. After Capt. Thompson 
and M Company passed by, other elements came along, 
and Lieuts. Hagee and Hamilton, with a small body of 
men, went through the lower end of the wood on the slope 
of the hill toward Cheppy, and took a number of prison- 
ers. As they were returning toward the bridge, Hagee 
saw a flash of uniform whisking through the brush, and 
shouted *'Halt!" The flying man did not halt, so Hagee 
shot twice with his pistol, the second shot bringing down 
his man. It proved to be a German officer, who spoke 
English well. He was sure the Americans never would 
take Cheppy. The prisoners were lined up and searched, 
the wounded officer's leg was bandaged, and Hagee and 
Hamilton offered to match him for his camera. 

Half an hour later Capt. Skinker came up. Enemy 
machine gun fire had become very active, and Hagee 
and all others in his neighborhood took refuge in shell 
holes. It was while moving from one of these protec- 
tions to another that Hagee got a machine gun bullet 
through his leg. Thinking he would be taken to the 
rear at once, he gradually abandoned his equipment to 
make his progress easier, and had shorn himself of pis- 
tol, pack and gas mask when a gas alarm was shouted. 

He threw himself into a shell hole and was lying face- 
down trying to keep out the gas when something fell 

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113 

on top of him. He cautiously investigated and found 
that it was Lieut. ''Chuck" Venable, also seeking cover. 
Hagee climbed out of the hole and soon worked his way 
to the rear. The next shell hole had Col. Howland and 
Capt. Ehrhardt in it, so Hagee went still further and 
continued to the rear as best he could, taking shelter 
when the enemy fire became very intense. He finally 
reached a dressing station, where Lieut. Lindsay, a den- 
tal officer, dressed his wound and sent him back to the 
hospital, and out of the war. 

Lieut. Claud Hampshire also was wounded the first day. 
He had been hit across the back, narrowly missing the 
spine, while he was reconnoitering a trench, and had fal- 
len in a shell hole full of gassed water. He lay there 
for hours before being taken to the rear in a serious con- 
dition. 

As Hagee worked his way back along the road, Capt. 
Alex. R. Skinker, with three platoons of I Company of 
the 138th was in position probably the most advanced 
on the American contingent on that side of Cheppy. Col. 
Howland was well back on the road, taking what cover 
the ground offered against the very heavy machine gun 
and artillery fire. Capt. Reinholdt and his detachment 
were on the right of the road, in combat formation, 
fronting the enemy. They were in a ditch which gave 
fair protection against the machine guns which they faced. 

To the front of Skinker was the road which led to 
Cheppy, and the little bridge by which it crossed Buanthe 
Creek. The low lands along the creek were protected 
by a wire entanglement. 

Skinker was a highly intelligent young officer, of un- 
questioned courage and nerve. He was noted for the 
care he took of his men and the lengths he would go for 



114 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

them. It was clear that he would lose heavily if he tried 
to advance through the terrific fire which was pouring 
from the side of the hill. The fog had nearly disap- 
peared and he doubtless calculated it would be better to 
uncover the location of the guns at the expense of a few 
men, and conceived the idea of sending an automatic 
rifleman against the position, probably in the hope of re- 
ducing it by luck and skill. In choosing the men to do 
the trick, it would be thoroughly in keeping with his 
trend of thought to decide upon himself as one of them. 
He would not have asked of his men anything he would 
not do himself; he understood the Chauchat automatic 
rifle, and could use it if the rifleman fell, and there was 
no question of his own nerve. It was quite typical of 
him to undertake the task himself and leave his com- 
pany under what scanty cover there was. 

This French automatic rifle can be carried and fired by 
one man while advancing. He shoots from the hip. The 
cartridges are fed from a half-moon clip which snaps into 
place below the lock. A feeder walking alongside the 
rifleman can remove the empty ''pans" and affix full 
ones to the rifle without losing step. 

Capt. Skinker called a rifleman and a carrier, explained 
his plan, took plenty of ammunition and started for- 
ward to breach the Hindenburg line. Very soon the car- 
rier was shot dead. Skinker took his supplies of am- 
munition and pressed ahead, himself feeding the rifle. 
Skinker fell next, killed instantly with his face to the 
foe and advancing. Then the rifleman was killed, and 
while I do not know, I like to think he was still pressing 
on alone. 

I regret that I have been unable so far to learn the 
names of the two men who died with Capt. Skinker. 



CAPtAIN SKINKER S BRAVERY 



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Several names have been suggested, but no one I have 
found seems to know certainly who these brave men 
Avere. Their names doubtless are in this list, which I 
copied from the metal identity tags on the crosses over 
the row of graves beneath the three forlorn trees at this 
bloody angle. The first grave is Capt. Skinker's. The 




CAPT. SKINKER'S GRAVE UNDER THREE 
TREES AT CHEPPY 



others are George Feld, Walter G. Ivie, Robert Adkison, 
Maurice G. Walter, Sergt. Roscoe Robertson, Monroe 
Jacobs, Harry C. Bowker, Andrew B. Corrigan, George 
H. Durfee, Will Gray, Virgil C. Penz, William Prost, 
James Meehan and Alfred A. Youngquist. 

Capt. Skinker's performance was of such tremendous 



116 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

courage, such pure inspiration and of such calm thought, 
that dispassionate review of it by high officers back in 
headquarters convinced Gen. Pershing that it was one of 
those rare deeds worthy of the Congressional Medal of 
Honor. Capt. Skinker never knew that the nests he 
moved against were steel and concrete, and impervious to 
the fire of his automatic rifle. 



CHAPTER XVII 



THE 138TH TAKES CHEPPY 

Regimental headquarters and staff of the 138th infan- 
try were in a ditch beside the road some 300 yards back 
of the scene of Skinker's valorous death. The fog had 
cleared away and the rattle of enemy machine guns from 
the front was incessant. Shells had killed many of the 
headquarters' detachment, and had wounded many more. 
The road was a shambles of human ^vreckage. 

Two small French tanks came bowling over the hill. It 
was feared an American might not be able to make the 
crews understand the situation. So Sergt. Morel, the 
interpreter assigned to the regiment by the French army, 
took the job upon himself. Morel was a debonnair young 
man of 35, with a generous heart and a discriminating 
taste in wine. He had been a prominent sportsman be- 
fore the war, and since had been a gunner toiling in the 
defenses about Verdun. When he was wounded the sec- 
ond time the French decided he was not much good for 
further service with the guns so they made him an inter- 
preter. He w^as not the best interpreter in the army, 
but he was one of the very best fellows and a most de- 
lightful companion. 

Morel lifted himself out of the ditch and ran across 
the field, swept as it was by machine-gun fire from the 
whole woods across the creek. He sprinted in front of 
a tank and waved his arms and yelled. The tank stopped 
and the little trap door opened. Instead of the expected 

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118 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

poilu, an American soldier stuck his head out and asked 
calmly : 

'^Well, what the hell do YOU want?" 

Morel showed where the enemy machine guns were 
hidden. They had ceased firing to avoid revealing their 
position. Then he went back to headquarters in the 
ditch. That was how Morel won the Croix de Guerre 
after four years of war. I asked him afterwards how 
the Americans fought. ^^They were too brave," he an- 
swered sadly. 

The tanks tried hard, but they could not cross the 
creek, and their light fire was not enough to clear the 
hill of the enemy. Artillery, doubtless promptly advised 
that the tanks were there, began dropping shells around. 
Col. Rowland, fearing that the artillery fire drawn by 
the tanks would do more damage to his forces than the 
work of the tanks would benefit them, ordered the tanks 
to the rear. '^-^ 

The French Lieutenant in charge of the tanks had 
himself charged a machine gun nest near the wire, killed 
one gunner and captured two others and the gun. When 
he turned these over to Col. Rowland he said there Avere 
eight big tanks some distance to the southwest. Rowland 
ordered him to hurry off and bring them at once. The 
Frenchman departed through the rain of artillery and 
machine gun fire. 

Enemy machine guns became more active still after the 
two small tanks disappeared and Col. Rowland ordered 
all his men to cease firing and wait for supports. It was 
at this time that Lieut. Ragee, wounded and trying to 
reach the rear, reported to Col. Rowland on conditions 
further up the road. Rowland estimates that he had lost 
a third of his detachment at that time. Re decided to 



THE 138th takes cheppy 119 

dispose what he had left in battle formation in a trench 
near by, and crawled out of the ditch to rally his men, 
but in the road he found none but dead men. From 
shell holes over the field he got what men were taking 
cover there and forming them in the trench, was pre- 
pared to hold or repel an attack. 

Then he made his way forward to where Capt. Rein- 
holdt, despite hea\^ losses, was holding fast. The shell- 
ing was very heavy and a shell fragment shattered Col. 
Rowland's hand. Rowland returned to his place by the 
side of the road and held on. 

For three hours there was virtually no movement of 
these men. The enemy machine guns sought out any 
spot where the slightest movement was observed and the 
shells pounded the area constantly. 

Finally, after what seemed an age of waiting, eight tanks 
appeared on the left. Maneuvered perfectly, they swung 
out of column and into line, crossed the open between the 
two roads and took position about 10 paces apart. All ef- 
fectives in that neighborhood formed in squads behind the 
tanks. While the infantry with rifle and machine guns 
fired on suspected places in the brush and woods on the 
hillside, the tanks, with all their armament, pounded the 
nests and pill boxes to pieces. The one-pounders fired high 
explosive into the defenses and the machine guns cut down 
the evicted gunners. It was but a work of minutes for these 
wheeled forts and the front was cleared of an enemy which 
had delayed the advance for hours. 

The tanks then turned to the right flank, and when they 
had pounded it awhile, Capt. Reinholdt took his command 
forward, in combat groups, and mopped up the whole flank. 
Thus that road into Cheppy was cleared. 

In the final attack and the actual taking of Cheppy, the 



120 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

Second Battalion of the 138th was very active also. Lieuts. 
Humphrey Price, Everett Vogt and John Moll, each with 
about a platoon of men, attacked on the west, a little to 
the north of the position where Howland and his head- 
quarters was held. Each one led his platoon against ma- 
chine gun nests, and all entered the town among the first. 
Lieut. Price, who is a grandson of Gen. Sterling Price, got 
the Distinguished Service Cross for his work there. 

When Howland started to the rear he found lying in 
the road 12 dead and mangled men, and among them Capt. 
Ehrhardt, the gallant French liaison officer, suffering from 
four wounds. The French doctor with the tanks examined 
Howland, found him weak and faint from loss of blood 
and ordered him evacuated. Lieutenant-Colonel H. W. 
Parker took command of the regiment. 

With the defenses to the south and southwest of Cheppy 
reduced, the town was at the mercy of the 138th. Sauer- 
wein's battalion, with Capt. Crist now in command, en- 
tered from the east. Thompson 's outfit, which was M Com- 
pany, and incidental squads and platoons he had picked 
up, had gone through the town very early and had thor- 
oughly cleaned the northern part with a profit of 300 pris- 
oners, all Prussian guardsmen. From the southwest the 
regimental headquarters and parts of the Second and First 
Battalions entered. 

I do not know which company's men first entered Chep- 
py. Many outfits claim the honor, and all probably be- 
lieve they are right. The town w^as entered from many 
sides by many groups of men. I incline to the belief that 
Lieut. Haller and about a platoon of G Company were 
among the first, if not the very first to enter the town. 

General Traub sent this message from his advanced 
P. C. in the afternoon: 



THE 138th takes cheppy 121 

From Okla. 1, at % k. S. of LaForge Min. 200 m. W. 
of Cheppy- Vauquois Road, 9/26 hr. 2:38 p.m. 

Just arrived here and taken charge. Right of 138th 
Regt. beyond Cheppy, probably now on Corps Ob- 
jective. Left Regt. exact position unknown, but 
probably near Varennes. Have ordered advance to 
corps objective all along the line, with liaison through- 
out. Leading bns. of Regts. became disorganized in 
fog resulting in loss of touch and enabling M. G. 
nests to remain undiscovered. Tanks have done good 
work. Am sending French tanks to attack between 
Cheppy and Varennes. Amer. tanks from Cheppy 
to Varennes. As soon as we reach Corps. Obj. will 
let you know. Div. P. C. cannot be placed at La- 
Forge Moulin, too heavily shelled. Enemy now put- 
ting down shells on line S. W. of Cheppy. When 
I know definitely just where our advanced troops are 
will call for Art. barrage. In meanwhile Art. should 
move up and take position in Bois de Rossignol. 
They can get around on road to E. of Vauquois. They 
should be well supplied with ammunition, and trench 
mortars ammunition should be brought up. I ask 
for aviation protection between Varennes and Cheppy 
as Boche machines have been flying back and forth 
between these points at an altitude of a few hundred 
feet only. Telephone wire badly needed. Repeat 
to Corps Commander. 

Sgd: Peter E. Traub. 

In the Second Battalion E Company had fared well in 
the preliminary bombardment, but it began to suffer with 
the advance. Corp. Reeves was the first. He was hit by 
shell fragments immediately after the start. To make its 
advance, E Company came out of the fringe of woods and 
ascended a steep bank some 10 or 12 feet high, and then 
pushed forward through the thick mist over a compara- 
tively level country. There was wire everywhere but 
paths had been cut through it by the men the night be- 



122 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

fore, and by the troops which preceded E Company that 
morning. Lieut. Watson was hit in the first 10 feet of the 
advance. A machine gun leveled him. Sergt. C. G. Mc- 
Corkle of the platoon following, shouted for stretcher 
bearers for the stricken Lieutenant, but did not delay the 
platoon an instant. It is the rule of the game. The com- 
pany lost 10 men in the first half minute. Sergt. Hart- 
man was one of them. Three shells which hit in the First 
and Second Platoons immediately after going over caused 
most of the loss. 

About halfway to Cheppy the company was joined by a 
Sergeant and four men from the Ninety-first Division 
lost in the fog. They stayed with E Company three days. 

Cheppy had been a pleasant little town, with three 
roads wandering through it. There had been the main 
part of town in the neighborhood of the road crossings, 
and out each of the routes ran a line of buildings. There 
also was a string of residences on the little hill above the 
town. The St. Louisans found many things to interest 
them in Cheppy. 

Every house was fortified, although they were nearly 
all little more than ruins from years of shell fire. Dug- 
outs were plentiful and comfortable. The town appar- 
ently had been a headquarters of the officer commanding 
the front in that section, and his staff. They had lived 
comfortably, planted gardens, raised chickens, hares and 
pigs, and some attempt at ornamentation was to be seen. 

Altogether more than 300 prisoners were taken, all 
fine troops and the most of them Prussian guardsmen. In 
one dugout, our men came across a mystery. A German 
Captain lay in his bunk as if asleep. But he was dead, 
newly dead, with many bulletholes through his body. 
The dugout was not in range of our machine guns, as it 



THE 138th takes cheppy 123 

was behind a hill. He must have been killed by his own 
men. 

Part of the booty taken there was a consignment of 
100 anti-tank guns which had never been used. They 
were like great rifles, with 7-foot barrels, a bore of an 
inch and an A-shaped rest swinging from the barrel. Two 
complete sets of field surgical equipment were taken, and 
soon were being employed. Maj. Emil Burgher took one 
and sent the other to Capt. Wald. They found the ma- 
terial of excellent quality and the drugs and chemicals of 
good strength and purity. 

A battery of enemy guns captured in the woods near 
Cheppy had been made by the Bethlehem Steel Works 
for the Russian Government, the inscription stated. From 
Russia they had been brought by the Germans to this 
front, and now, through the fortunes of war, had come 
back into American possession. 

Another interesting capture was a German canteen, 
well stocked and open for business. Its supplies included 
three kegs of lager beer. 

Corp. Reynolds was at first suspicious, and kept the 
men away from the beer until he had sent for two 
prisoners and tried the beer on them. The prisoners 
smacked their lips and approved of it. They were sent 
back to their guards, and the beer, with the rest of the 
spoils, went to the victors. 

Maj. Burgher set up his aid station in Cheppy, and the 
battalion medical officers went on with the troops. Vir- 
tually all the wounded of the regiment henceforth were 
cleared through Burgher's 'Hriage" there, although the 
Major himself was often in the front with his Lieutenants 
at the first aid dressing stations. 

Capt. Thompson had virtually reached the corps' ob- 



124 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

jective by the time tlie fog lifted, so he moved over to 
the right. At 10:30 there was good visibility, and 
Thompson was unable to see Americans anywhere, but 
he could see a party of Germans approaching on either 
flank. He disposed his company in an old German artil- 
lery position and prepared for a fight. As soon as he 
opened fire the Germans divided into two bands, one of 
which retreated and the other held up hands, cried 
''Kamerad" and surrendered. His flanking platoons also 
brought in prisoners and at the end of the day he had re- 
ceipts, which he demanded as zealously as a bank cash- 
ier, for 262 men and three officers. This was more than 
the total strength of his company. 

He pushed Lieut. Seamon out to the northwest feeling 
for the enemy or for liaison, with the Ninety-first Division 
on his right. Seamon found and cleaned a big machine 
gun nest, and brought back 17 prisoners. One of these 
was a bicycle orderly, w^ho had messages and maps of 
much value to our intelligence department. 

Being on the line of his objective, Thompson reported 
by runner and dug his company in to wait for the rest of 
the regiment. At 1 p. m. he had liaison on his right, but 
none on his left. Other elements passed through after 
the taking of Cheppy, and Lieutenant-Colonel Parker re- 
organized the regiment. By 7 p. m. they had advanced 
to a position a kilometer south of M Company's line, and 
Capt. Thompson, on orders, took his company back to 
them. There the regiment lay during the night, the of- 
ficers trying to assemble their men, to find lost or strayed 
squads and platoons and to count the cost. 



CHAPTER XVIII 



THE 139TH JUMPS OVER THE 137TH 

There is no way to calculate the losses of the 138th hi 
the first day's fighting, but they had been heavy enough 
to stun. The doctors worked all night in Cheppy and in 
the advanced dressing posts, for the enemy fire was con- 
stant and there was a steady grist of wounded and dead. 

Col. Howland was wounded and out of the fight. Maj. 
Sauerwein, Capt. Skinker and Lieut. Watson and other 
officers were dead, and a dozen or more line officers were 
wounded and had been sent back to hospitals. How 
many effectives had been removed from the ranks by 
death and wounds one can but estimate, for there was no 
chance for a muster on the field, and some of the scattered 
squads did not find their companies till the fight was 
over. 

The most serious loss, from the cold military viewpoint, 
was in the officers. There were plenty of men left to do 
the work, but the division had started in woefully short 
of Lieutenants, Captains and Majors, and every loss of 
that kind hurt. 

The regiment had fought its way through defenses of 
the Hindenburg line to its objective, it had inflicted 
heavy damage on the enemy, had taken many prisoners, 
and had captured, besides the booty taken in Cheppy, 
probably 20 machine guns. 

Up to March 25, 1919, the American army headquarters 
had found but 62 men in this war whom they deemed 
worthy of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Two of 

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l26 FROM VAUQUOIS UIIAj TO EXERMONT 

these medals went to the 35th Division, and both, strangely 
enough, had been won in the 138th Eegiment, and, nar- 
rowing it still further, in I Company of that regiment, by 
Capt. Skinker and Private Nels Wold, both of whom were 
dead before noon of the first day's fight, and the battle was 
just beginning. 

The 35th Division attacked, as has been told, in 
column of brigades, with the Sixty-ninth Brigade leading 
and the Seventieth Brigade following in support. Within 
the brigades the regiments were abreast. In the Sixty- 
ninth Brigade the 137th Regiment was on the left and the 
138th on the right. All the account of the action which 
has been written up to this point concerns the 138th Regi- 
ment, which we have foUow^ed through the first day. We 
now take up the 137th Regiment of infantry which at- 
tacked just on the left of the 138th and at the same time 
and, theoretically, in constant touch and liaison with it. 

The 137th Infantry, all Kansas, under command of 
Col. Clad Hamilton, attacked to the west of Vauquois 
Hill, and their left was along the river Aire, a stream 
which usually could be forded or waded. . It was fairly 
clear water, but the men were forbidden to drink it, an 
injunction frequently disobeyed in the next few days. 

The dense fog, abetted by the smoke screen thrown by 
the artillery around Vauquois Hill, caused confusion and 
intermingling of units from the first, but they pushed 
through to the ruins which once had been the town of 
Bouruielles. To this point the regiment's left boundarj^ 
was the national highway which runs from Neuvilly to 
Varennes and on northw^ard. This had been a fine road, 
but across it was the first defense of the Hindenburg 
line. It was a powerful barricade of concrete interplaced 
with heavy steel railroad rails, and bigger than a railroad 



tHE 139th jumps over the 137th 127 

**filL" Over the whole ran the mevitable tangle of 
barbed wire. The men went over this, cutting the wire 
where the artillery had failed to do so and into Bonrui- 
elles, whose two well-built concrete machine gun emplace- 
ments were captured. Lieut. Breeze, who was in combat 
liaison with the 28th Division on the left, had charge of this 
part of the work. 

A little way beyond this ruined tovm the road crossed 
the river and thereafter the stream was the divisional 
boundary. 

The leading battalion pressed forward, cleaned out the 
Aden strongpoint, and in the hopeless fog, and with 
artillery fire which they had met from the first were 
stopped before the well constructed defenses of Varennes. 
Many machine guns opened, and there was no chance to 
look ahead into the gloom. There had been much mixing 
of units, and it was a well shuffled outfit which took 
cover before the Varennes defenses and searched the fog 
with rifle fire while Avaiting for the day to clear and the 
rest of the regiment to come up. The greater part of the 
town Varennes lies on the west of the river, which was 
in the area of the 28th Division. On our side of the river 
there were many ruined houses, a big roofless church and 
many strong machine gun positions built of stone from 
the shell-wrecked houses. 

Behind the 137th was its supporting regiment, the 
139th of the 70th Brigade. Lieutenant- Colonel Carl L. 
Ristine commanded this outfit. He was a keen soldier, 
had been a football player at the University of Missouri, 
was a ** hard -boiled" commander and a man-driver, who 
firmly believed that his regiment was the best in the serv- 
ice anywhere. He had kept his command fairly clear of 
intermixture in the advance from the jumping-off place 



128 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

to Varennes. It vv^as in column of battalions, with com- 
panies and platoons in '^staggard" formation. That is, 
the formation nowhere made long straight lines through 
which machine guns or artillery might plow a path with 
great loss. 

Some distance below Varennes, Histine's scouts re- 
ported to him that the 137th Regiment, or elements of it, 
were just ahead, held up by a concentration of enemy 
machine guns in front of them. Ristine ordered his men 
to dig in, as there was considerable shell fire at that place, 
and so he waited for the procession to move. While wait- 
ing, his second battalion joined up. This was about 9 :30 
a. m. It had been engaged in mopping up the west end 
of Vauquois Hill and the Bois de Rossignol. The bat- 
talion, attached to the 137th, had been dropped off as the 
advancing regiment passed the works and it had methodi- 
cally cleaned them of all enemy elements, killing or cap- 
turing all defenders. It was commanded by Major James 
Rieger, a tall, spare man, with graying hair and a soft 
voice, a lawyer in Kirksville, Mo., in times of peace. He 
is of a religious turn of mind, very earnest, a hard student 
and in the opinion of many persons, nearly the ideal civil- 
ian soldier. Rieger was not with his battalion before Var- 
ennes, and Ristine believed he had been killed. 

At about 9 :45, the support battalion of the 137th Regi- 
ment came up behind the 139th. The other two battalions 
were in front of the 139th. This seemed strange to Ris- 
tine, who was sure that he had swept the country be- 
tween the jumping-off place and his present locatibn, and 
he had not passed a stray battalion anywhere. Still the 
137th had started before him, and here was one of its 
battalions behind him. He doubtless had passed them 




AIRPLANE PHOTOGRAPH OF VAUQUOIS HILL 



THE 139th jumps over the 137th 129 

in the maze of wire, and the darkness of the fog and 
smoke. 

Ristine waited two hours, and then went forward him- 
self and asked Col. Hamilton what had stopped the ad- 
vance. Col. Hamilton said that his command had be- 
come badly mixed np in the early morning, and that he 
did not believe he could advance them through the well- 
knit defenses ahead of him without artillery or other 
support. 

Ristine returned to his regiment and sent by runner to 
the brigade commander, Col. Kirby Walker, a message 
telling of conditions. After a while he sent another mes- 
sage asking permission of the brigade commander to take 
his regiment through the 137th and continue the action. 
He received no reply to any of his messages to brigade 
headquarters that day. The inability of regimental com- 
manders to get replies from Brigade and Division Head- 
quarters continued through the battle. 

The constant cannonading to which his men were be- 
ing subjected was beginning to tell on them. It was the 
first time they had been constantly and furiously shelled. 
A fringe of stragglers from the 137th had commenced to 
filter through his lines from the front, he was advised, 
and this tended to weaken the morale of his command. 
Ristine decided that the case needed action on his part, 
so he ordered his men out of their foxholes, put them in 
formation, went right through the lines of the 137th and 
proceeded northward. 

His formation for this ** passage of lines" and the ad- 
vance afterward was column of battalions in this order 
from the front : Scouts, a skirmish line, Third Battalion, 
First Battalion, Second Battalion. 

They had proceeded no great distance, probably less 



130 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

than a kilometer, when the scouts and skirmish line be- 
gan to slow up, and Ristine, with the thought of keeping 
his regiment at the highest pitch feared the morale might 
suffer from another stop. So, after instructing Maj. Wil- 
liam D. Stepp to take charge of the regiment, he went 
forward and took command of his own skirmish line. 

The advance proceeded some 200 yards, when he came 
across Maj. Rieger, who had pressed ahead with less than 
100 men of the Second Battalion, the rest being in the 
column. Seeing the 137th stopped, Rieger had tried to 
break the enemy's line, and had driven a wedge into it 
and was holding. Ristine put these men in the skirmish 
line, along with some from the 137th which he picked up. 
He ordered Rieger to command the right wing, and to 
push to the east toward Very, which the Major did. 

Ristine then plunged forward with his strong skirmish 
line, destroying everything which opposed him to a point 
about a kilometer and a half south of Charpentry. A 
heavy enfilading fire of artillery and machine guns on 
his left caught him here and he ordered his men to dig in 
and wait for the regiment to come up. It did not come, 
so Ristine started back to find out the reason. He dis- 
covered that it had had heavy fighting and a serious bom- 
bardment just after he had left it; that Maj. Stepp had 
been killed and that the regiment was where he had 
left it. 

He reformed again and, still in column of battalions, 
moved forward and dug in just back of his skirmish line 
at nightfall. 



CHAPTER XIX 



CONFUSION ON THE FIELD 

The 137th in the meantime was badly mixed and its 
elements out of touch. The first Battalion, pressing on, 
was in touch with the 139th regiment when darkness 
came, but it was out of all touch with its own regiment. 
Elements of the regiment dug in for the night wherever 
they happened to be, mostly on the slopes leading to 
Baunthe Creek. 

Behind the 138th Regiment on the right was the 140th, 
commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Delaplane, who 
had been divisional ordnance officer. The regiment had 
trouble with the fog and smoke, as every other regiment 
did, but after passing through the wire in the path taken 
by the 138th it straightened itself out well and set about 
its work. 

They moved on, bombing dugouts, beating clumps of 
woods and otherwise making the neighborhood safe for 
democracy as they went, and dug in for the night be- 
hind the 138th on the high ground south of Very. The 
140th had an easy time the first day. There was no 
fighting and not a casualty in the regiment. 

The Sixty-ninth Brigade, in which were the 137th and 
138th Regiments, had headquarters on Mamelon Blanc 
the night before the attack. Col. Nuttman, commanding 
the brigade, and Maj. D wight F. Davis, the brigade Ad- 
jutant, moved forward early on the morning of Sept. 26, 
in the wake of the brigade. Headquarters were to be set 
up next at Le Forge Moulin, a spot on the map near Chep- 

131 



132 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

py which some contended would turn out to be a black- 
smith shop, and others said was the old ruined mill. 

The Adjutant with five men was leading the head- 
quarters detachment, guiding by compass in the dense 
fog, when after a time he became aware that the brigade 
commander and the remainder of the outfit was not with 
him. Apparently they became convinced that Davis was 
not taking the right direction, or they guided by their 
own compasses and went another way. At any rate, the 
Major found himself in a strange field well marked by 
battle, and advancing through fog and mist towards the 
firing. 

After awhile he came upon a platoon of men sitting be- 
side the road. They had lost their officer and did not 
know what their orders were. The meeting was auspi- 
cious. Here were men without an officer, there was an of- 
ficer without men. Davis picked them up and proceeded 
forward. 

Pretty soon they picked up a machine-gun company 
of the Ninety-first Division, who were not only out of 
their position, but out of their sector. He took them 
along also, and after assimilating some incidental infan- 
try further along, he had quite a sizeable little army, all 
his own, and only needing a scrap to prove itself. This 
he found at Cheppy, which was before him when the fog 
lifted. Other strays fighting about there told the Major 
there were many snipers in the neighborhood. Some 
Frenchmen had just been killed at that spot. The sight 
of the dead Frenchmen spurred the men, and Maj. Davis 
deployed his mob to attack Cheppy. The town had al- 
ready been taken, but he did not know that and it did 
not matter. When the formation was perfect and they 
were about to advance, a German ran out of a dugout 



CONFUSION ON THE FIELD 133 

nearby, crying ' ' Kamerad. " Davis' outfit, infuriated by 
the sight of the sniped French soldiers and sure that this 
was the sniper, were about to kill him, but the Major ar- 
rived before the prisoner had felt the bayonet pricks. 

The attack on Cheppy was delayed until discipline and 
order were restored, and then three more prisoners ran 
out. Soon some more, and then more, until a big bunch 
w^as lined up. The number exceeded the total strength of 
Davis' scratch army, which he was obliged to weaken 
further by a detail to take the prisoners to the rear. The 
delayed attack on Cheppy now Avas seen to be unneces- 
sary, as American troops were observed in the town, so 
the Major entered Cheppy and dealt out his command, as 
nearly as he could, to their parent bodies and sent the 
machine gunners back to their own division. Thus he 
gave up command of his Free Rangers and returned to 
the business of adjutanting a brigade, the location of 
whose headquarters he did not know. 

Col. Nuttman wandered on after leaving Davis, got 
worse tangled in the fog and bore too far to the east. Af- 
ter a while when the light grew better, he saw troops 
ahead, and when he got up to them, he discovered that 
they belonged to the Ninety-first Division. He had wan- 
dered clear out of his divisional area. 

Orienting himself as well as he could, he retraced his 
steps, and finally along about midday, came in behind 
Cheppy, which had already fallen. 

The artillery, which had taken so big a part in pound- 
ing the line in the early morning, had laid a rolling bar- 
rage ahead of the advancing troops, and kept it up until 
7:40. By that time the range had increased to a point 
w^here it w^as not practical to throw a barrage because 



134 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

sufficient accuracy could not be assured to make it valu- 
able and safe. 

So the artillery was ordered forward with all speed 
to place itself in a position to help out the infantry. At 
8 :30 a. m. the 129th Field Artillery Regiment was ordered 
forw^ard toward Cheppy. At 8:50 one battalion of the 
130th Field Artillery was ordered to Varennes, and at 
10 :15 the other two battalions were ordered to follow. At 
9 o'clock, the whole regiment of the 128th moved out to 
take position to the east of Varennes. 

The main road from Neuvilly was not available, be- 
cause the bridge near Bouruielles had been blown up by 
the Germans, and an immense mine crater blocked the 
way in another place. About the only way for our ar- 
tillery to go forward was along the road which the map 
gave as our *'axis of liaison," as the division's main ar- 
tery of supply is called. This was a poor road, and the 
artillery horses were very tired. Indeed, the hard work 
of the days preceding had almost worn them out. 

The ground over which the guns had to move had been 
virtually a No Man's Land for years and was soggy and 
full of rank weeds. At every little creek or ditch, the 
wheels sank in the mud and stuck. Officers' mounts and 
all the horses of mounted details were put into harness to 
move the guns, but there was not much progress made. 
Only one battery, which was of the 129th regiment, got 
into position again that day. It took position in the north 
edge of the Rossignol Wood. So that after 8 a.m. that 
day, the infantry had virtually no artillery support. The 
German fire never slackened. 



CHAPTER XX 



FAILURE OF LIAISON 

For the purpose of keeping the headquarters in the 
rear informed of conditions at the front, the usual meth- 
ods presumably had been provided before the attack, but 
they all broke down, from one cause or another. Gen. 
Drum's report laid this failure to the inefficiency of the 
division signal officer. 

Signal flags were, of course, useless where one could 
not see a hundred yards, as were also flash lamps and 
heliographs, or any other method which relied upon visi- 
bility for its success. Wires were carried forward, but 
according to regimental signal officers, divisional head- 
quarters failed to connect up with them, so that regi- 
mental headquarters were left up in the air, telephonical- 
ly, with nobody on the other end of the wire. 

Col. Dickey sent the following message: 
From Dickey, near Triangle Crossroads s. of LaForge 
Min. 1 :35 p.m. 9/26. Have just succeeded in getting 
chain of runners back. S.C. has no wire to connect 
us. Am with 69th and 70th Brig. Hqrs. which are 
together. Other messages from them accompany this. 
Location of front line unknown. 

The signal platoon of the headquarters company of the 
138th had a wireless set working in a shell hole before 
Cheppy very soon after the advance was stopped there. 
They called repeatedly for headquarters, divisional or 
brigade, to tell them of the plight of the detachment be- 

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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



fore Cheppy, but they got no answer. They got the time 
from the Eiffel tower in Paris, and heard other outfits 
speaking, but could not raise their owti. Later it Avas 
said that divisional headquarters detachment, not expect- 




THE BALLOON GOES FORWARD 



ing a call so early, had not put up their set at that time. 
The *'T. P. S." also was tried by the 138th, but there was 
no receiving set installed by headquarters. This is a sys- 
tem of telephoning without wires, using the ground as a 



FAILURE OF LIAISON 137 

conducting medium. It is most successful for distances 
up to a few miles. 

Carrier pigeons refused to fly true, either bewildered by 
the dense fog and smoke, or benumbed b}^ the din of ar- 
tillery and smaller gun fire. 

Kunners were the only means left, and they had almost 
no landmarks to guide them through the fog and smoke. 
These things account for much of the confusion of units 
in the division at nightfall. 

The failure of liaison and all mechanical means of com- 
munication cost the lives of many brave men in the front 
lines in the course of the battle. If the troops located 
machine gun nests or battery positions, as happened 
many times, the fact was immediately reported. The In- 
telligence section worked out the map co-ordinates to 
ask the artillery to shell the spot. This would have re- 
sulted in silencing the battery which was driving fur- 
rows through our ranks. The wire from regimental 
headquarters (if regimental headquarters was located) 
would get no answer from the brigade, and through bri- 
gade headquarters was the course which the appeal to 
the artillery must take. Runners would be dispatched. 
If they were not killed or wounded en route, they prob- 
ably would find the agile brigade headquarters had 
moved from the shell hole in which it had last been seen, 
and there would be no one there to tell where it was gone. 
The search for the headquarters would continue while 
the battery or machine gun nest would continue to take 
its toll of American lives. 

Quick communication would have been invaluable, but 
the headquarters did not provide it, or make proper pro- 
vision for it before the battle. Runners are good means 
of communication, but they are much slower than tele- 



138 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

graph, telephone * ' T. P. S. " flash lights, flares, or rockets. 
Besides this, even from the hard army viewpoint, it is 
wrong to waste human flesh and the lives of men in do- 
ing work which could be done just as well and more 
quickly by mechanical means and devices. 

Gen. Traub had assumed that his officers would need 
a stiff spur to keep them far enough forward. Before 
the battle he called them together and made a speech, in 
which he told them that he did not want them to stay in 
the rear in their dugouts during the action, but with the 
front lines, where the bullets were flying, where a soldier 
justifies his existence. 

Those things sound fine in a speech, but in a battle, a 
general can do his work much better from a known and 
established headquarters than he can while wandering 
about the field. Col. Nuttman took Gen. Traub 's words 
literally, and endeavored to keep his headquarters near 
the front of his brigade line. He had come to the brigade 
at almost the last moment before the battle, he did not 
know his colonels by sight or by name, he did not know 
his staff, and worst of all, he did not know his men and 
what their capacities were. Gen. McClure whom he had 
relieved knew all these things thoroughly. There never 
was any question as to the courage of any of these officers, 
and it was not necessary for them to prove their bravery 
at the expense of efficiency. 

Nuttman kept his headquarters as far advanced as pos- 
sible, moving from one shell hole to another, and the 
chains of runners designed to keep him in communica- 
tion with the elements of his brigade, were constantly 
being broken by casualties to the runners. When a run- 
ner would return to brigade headquarters, he might find 
that it was gone. Col. Nuttman 's conception of liaison 



FAILURE OF LIAISON 139 

and its functions and values seems to have been very 
vague. He moved headquarters so frequently that run- 
ners could not find it, and there was not time to set 
up the wireless. This caused and continued the confusion 
in the elements of the brigade. Major D wight Davis, his 
Adjutant, and Lieutenant Sylvester Judge, his aide, both 
told him this, quite bluntly. 

The brigade signal men had prepared 2 kilometers of 
telephone wire for the advance to keep the brigade in 
touch with the division headquarters. The first move- 
ment was four kilometers forward. Half way up the 
headquarters saw the last of that signal officer sitting on 
the empty spool at the end of his wire. 

About 3 p. m. on the first day of the fight, a wounded 
officer reached division headquarters and informed Lt. 
Col. Gallagher and Capt. Fullerton that Cheppy and 
Varennes had been taken. This seems the first reliable 
information they had. In the conversation following, the 
officer, who wanted to return, asked where the regimental 
headquarters were. 

''I wish I knew," said Col. Gallagher, *'and I wish I 
knew even where the brigade headquarters are." 

The French and British officers had pounded into the 
Americans the vital importance of liaison, but the 35th 
Division leaders never seemed to have much of an idea of 
it. They accepted it as one of the new fangled things 
which had come in with the war. A high French of- 
ficer said that the army with the best liaison, which would 
function at all times and keep the command informed of 
movements and which would transmit orders promptly 
and accurately, was the army which would win the war. 

Some of the arrangements and plans in the 35th di- 
vision were pitiful. ''Very" pistols were issued to be 



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used for signaling. Then ammunition was issued. It was 
for pistols of another bore. Just a few hours before the 
battle, an appendix to the battle orders was issued, giving 
the code readings of the rockets and flares. It was a 
long and valuable thing. Six white balls of lights in a 
rocket was a call for a barrage, one white and one green 
meant one thing and two reds and a blue meant another, 
and so on down the list. 

Then the materials were obtained, and they were all 
** yellow smoke." There was no code on the list for yel- 
low smoke. The signallers could only fire that one sign 
and it did not mean anything. 

The wire issued to the 137th was hopelessly damaged 
and spliced, and wound on an immense spool much too 
large to be carried by a man. Lieut. Goessling unwound 
it and had it put on spools which had held barbed wire. 

Confusion in the front inevitably resulted, from the 
failure of higher command to establish headquarters and 
keep in communication with the units. These units could 
not learn for themselves where other units were, and 
thus must surely move into the same territory with other 
units and mix with them. 



CHAPTER XXI 



NIGHT ON THE BATTLEFIELD 

On the night of Sept. 26 the division lay in a fairly co- 
hesive line, from a point a little south of Very to a point 
a little south of La Forge, on the Aire Eiver. Sentries 
were posted, and patrols working to the front found the 
enemy at various distances away, nowhere very near. 

Of all the hard work incident to soldiering, the very 
hardest is the fighting itself — the pressing ahead through 
whatever country, climbing hills, fording streams and 
ditches, clambering through mud, and the work of the 
battle, which is the most trying on muscle and nerve. 
The men of the Thirty-fifth were tired, and the most of 
them slept, although the enemy artillery fire never ceased. 

Out on the battlefield the tangled units lay in seem- 
ing order, organized for defense or quick attack. Besides 
the prowling patrols there was little movement among 
the infantry except where an officer would succeed in 
finding a lost platoon or squad and would take it back to 
its parent company. The sleepless runners pounded away 
on the eternal task of trying to find in the darkness an 
unknown Colonel and deliver to him a message from a 
Brigadier-General who would assuredly have moved be- 
fore the runner returned. 

But back of the lines, still in the darkness, for one 
dared not show a light, on every road for 20 miles there 
was the tangle of vehicles trying to get up with supplies, 
and the counter current of ambulances trying to get 
back with the wounded. The roads were bad in the ter- 

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142 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

ritory captured that day, and our system of traffic control 
was not good. Immense numbers of negro troops, turned 
into labor battalions, worked constantly to repair the 
roads. In the tangle of traffic they plugged away. Bound 
northward toward the battle line were heavy guns and 
light guns, horse or motor drawn, and in some instances 
75s were mounted on trucks that they might be carried 
with greater dispatch. 

There were automobiles of all kinds, and innumerable 
motor trucks carrying everything used in war, there were 
wagons, rolling kitchens, water carts, limbers, ambu- 
lances, ammunition wagons, ration wagons, machine gun 
carts, staff cars and mixed in between horses' feet and 
truck wheels, were the motor cycle orderlies speeding 
through every crack in the traffic jam. 

The first day for the Thirty -fifth had been brilliantly suc- 
cessful, the artillery had done its work magnificently well, 
our machine gunners were effective even beyond their 
own expectations, while the backbone of the division, the 
infantry, had proved itself the equal in skill, address and 
bravery of the enemy, and they had shown a big superior- 
ity in the dash and boldness which gives spring and vi- 
vacity to an attacking army. 

The first prisoners taken were from the second Land- 
wehr Division, and from the 15th Landsturm. But then 
came captives from the 1st and 5th Divisions of the Prus- 
sian guard. From prisoners it was learned that the 53d 
line Division, one of the best, was in reserve, and the grim 
work in the offing was clearly seen. 

It is a cruel necessity of war which requires, under con- 
ditions such as existed that first night, that ambulances 
taking wounded to the rear must be held up to let the 
guns and ammunition go forward. Hour after hour the 



NIGHT ON THE BATTLEFIELD 143 

long trains of ambulances lay in the congested roads, 
some of the wounded singing in defiance, some moaning 
in pain, some would become silent for a while and some be- 
came silent forever. One of the few advantages of a 
regular battle is that there is no restriction on noise. You 
may talk, sing or shout, curse or pray and nobody cares. 
Occasionally a man of the Salvation Army, the Y. M. C. 
A., the K. of C. or some other service would work his way 
through, giving cigarettes to the wounded, but usually it 
was the ambulance drivers who supplied their passengers 
with smokes. 



CHAPTER XXII 



CROSSED ORDERS FOR SECOND DAY'S ATTACK 

The first day of the Argonne battle had gone well on 
the whole field. Each of the nine divisions had advanced 
on its territory and the forward movement along the 16- 
mile front, attended by varying fortunes in the various 
areas and at a stiff cost everywhere, showed that our 
troops with artillery support could go through the de- 
fenses of the Hindenburg line. 

On the left of the 35th Division, between a mile 
and two miles away, was the Argonne Forest. The orig- 
inal battle plan was to have the artillery pile gas into the 
forest so as to tie up enemy activity there and for the troops 
outside the forest to advance on either side of it, uniting 
at Grand Pre at the northern tip of the forest. The Sev- 
enty-seventh Division, in whose sector the most of the 
forest lay, would then have only the task of mopping up 
a surrounded territory. These things were all incident 
to the main object of the advance, which was to get to 
the enemy 's railroads at Mezieres. 

Between the Thirty-fifth and the forest was the Twen- 
ty-eighth Division, Pennsylvania National Guardsmen. On 
the other side of the forest was the French fourth army, 
which also was meeting desperate resistance. 

The headquarters of the 69th Brigade, Colonel Nuttman 
commanding, was near the junction of the Baulny Road 
and the Varennes-Cheppy Road on the night of Septem- 
ber 26. 

The 70th Brigade headquarters, Colonel Walker com- 

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CROSSED ORDERS FOR ATTACK 145 

manding, was in Cheppy. Colonel Walker was physically 
exhausted and virtually in a state of collapse. 

At midnight, a mounted orderly instructed both Bri- 
gade Commanders to report at once to the Divisional 
Chief of Staff. Colonel Walker was unable to go, so 
Major Norman B. Comfort went in his stead. 

The Chief of Staff, Colonel Hawkins, was in a shell hole 
about a mile south of Cheppy. With him were Colonel 
Klemm, of the Artillery and a French liaison officer. The 
Chief of Staff had not seen General Traub since five 
o'clock the preceding afternoon. An order had been re- 
ceived from corps headquarters to resume the advance 
at 5:30 in the morning. The situation was thoroughly 
canvassed, and it was clear to all that there could be no 
artillery support before 8:30. Colonel Hawkins there- 
fore dictated an order to resume the advance at 8 :30 a. m. 
The business of reproducing this order and transmitting 
it to the various headquarters devolved upon the 70th 
Brigade Headquarters. Major Comfort took this order, 
which was to cause the movement of 14,000 men, mounted 
his horse and rode away in the darkness. At the 70th 
Brigade P. C. he read the order aloud, and the other of- 
ficers made copies of it for transmission to the regimental 
commanders. 

At 3:10 Colonel Nuttman and Colonel Ristine appeared 
at 70th Brigade headquarters. They had gone astray in 
the night, and moving in the wrong direction, had wan- 
dered up to the front lines, Colonel Nuttman relying up- 
on his sense of direction to guide them. The orders were 
sent out by runners, and because of the distance, the 
darkness of the night and the uncertainty of the position 
of the troops, great fear was felt that the orders would 
not reach the troops in time. 



146 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

At 4:20, a mounted orderly reached the 70th Brigade 
P. C. with an order instructing that the advance should 
be resumed at 5:30. It was signed in code by the Divi- 
sional Commander. This presented a situation of fearful 
possibilities. An order had been sent out instructing 
the troops to advance at 8:30 after three hours artillery 
fire. Here now was another order seeming to make it 
imperative that the Chief of Staff change his original or- 
der and send the troops ahead three hours earlier. It 
seemed almost impossible to prepare the new orders and 
get them to the troops in time. Among the dangers was 
the one that the orders might reach the Infantry and not 
reach the Artillery, and that our men might advance in- 
to our own artillery fire. There was also the possibility 
that the new orders might reach one unit in time for it to 
advance at 5 :30, and not reach another, in which case one 
regiment would project itself into the enemy's line, while 
the regiment on its right or left would not, thus leaving 
the advancing regiment with at least one flank exposed. 

Corporal James Smith, of Eureka, Kansas, the only 
runner who knew the way to Colonel Hawkins' shell hole, 
was dispatched with all speed to obtain additional in- 
structions from the Chief of Staff. He came back at 4 :55 
with the answer that the original instructions were to 
stand — that the troops were to advance at 8 :30 after three 
hours artillery preparation. The 70th Brigade Head- 
quarters at that time was in that old and very strong 
German abri in Cheppy, which had been an enemy head- 
quarters. It was well placed under a hill for protection 
against French artillery fire, but since the Germans had 
been driven back and the Americans occupied the head- 
quarters, the open side of the building was to the north 
and therefore unprotected against German artillery fire. 



CROSSED ORDERS FOR ATTACK 147 

A dramatic thing happened. There was considerable 
enemy artillery fire to which nobody paid much attention 
until a shell came through the window of the headquar- 
ters and exploded inside the room with a great crash. All 
the candles were blown out, and it was feared that great 
damage had been done. When the candles were lighted 
again, inquiry was made whether anyone was hurt, but the 
only man who answered had a few cuts on his face from 
broken glass. Just then General Traub entered, accom- 
panied by Captain Sammens. He asked if his order to ad- 
vance at 5 :30 a.m. had been received. 

The situation was explained to him, that the quickest 
possible communication with the forward battalions was 
forty minutes, barring accident, that the artillery sched- 
ule could not be changed short of an hour, and that an 
advance at 5 :30 a. m. was impossible. The decision of 
the Chief of Staff, sent by runner to let his first order 
stand, that is, the one instructing the advance to begin 
at 8:30 a. m., was explained to the General. General 
Traub said of the 5:30 order ''It is General Pershing's 
order; it must be done.'* After more argument and ex- 
planation it was decided that the artillery was to begin 
fire at 5 :30, and the infantry should advance at 6 :30. This 
made it necessary to get orders to the artillery at once, 
so that they might lift their fire at 6 :30. It was now 5 :15 
in the morning. Ristine hurried away to his regiment. 
Corporal Smith, the only enlisted man who knew the way 
to the artillery headquarters, was called to take the mes- 
sage. He was lying in a bunk and failed to answer. Com- 
fort shook him before he discovered that the man was 
dead. The shell which pased through the window had 
killed him instantly. Comfort himself mounted and took 
the order to the artillery. 



CHAPTER XXIII 



THE ARTILLERY PRESSES FORWARD— THE 
MORNING ATTACK 

The artillery had worked all day of the 26th and all 
that night getting forward, for the infantry would of 
course, attack again to follow up its success of the first 
day and it must have artillery support. 

At 4 a. m. on the second day, Sept. 27, one battalion of 
the 128th Field Artillery went into position near Cheppy 
and was the only unit of artillery which was able to assist 
the infantry, which could have used two brigades on its 
task. The 129th Field Artillery was in position by 7 a. 
m. and the 130th Regiment took its place at 4 :30 in the 
afternoon. Throughout the day of Sept. 27 the entire 
brigade threw less than 1200 shells, against more than 
40,000 fired the preceding day. 

That the artillery was able to move at all, considering 
the shortage of horses, is a very high tribute to the energy 
of that arm of the service. The arrangements for sup- 
plying additional horses had not worked out. There were 
horses in the south of France and there were many horses 
in America, but they could not be brought to the Argonne 
in time for the battle. Our army bought from the French 
all the horses they could get. Remount officers and vet- 
erinarians were instructed to pass anything. Prices were 
very high, but they paid the prices to get the horses, and 
they were a sorry lot. Our own fine artillery horses were 
worn down by the work of getting the guns in position 

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THE ARTILLERY PRESSES FORWARD 149 

for the preliminary bombardments. When the killing 
work of moving forward over bad roads began, Septem- 
ber 26, some of the new horses lasted two days, and some 
only two hours, but guns went forward. It was a slow 
and painful progress but they went ahead. 

The orders were for the regiments of the Seventieth 
Brigade, consisting of the 139th and the 140th Infantry, 
to leap-frog over the regiments of the Sixty-ninth Bri- 
gade, the 137th and the 138th, and to attack. The Sixty- 
ninth Brigade was to follow the advance at a distance of 
1000 meters. 

Gen. Traub knew that he would have no artillery to 
support the attack at the early hour. Nothing was farther 
from his desire than to lose troops or to sacrifice men, but 
he did not feel that he was justified in taking the matter 
in his own hands and delaying the hour for the attack to 
8 :30. In the early morning, about 1 :30, he had left his 
headquarters on Mamelon Blanc back of the original line, 
and gone forward himself with some of his staff in an en- 
deavor to see brigade and regimental commanders to 
make sure the orders were understood, and, to quote the 
words of his report, * ^ thus assuring liaison and co-ordina- 
tion. ' ' That was how he appeared at the last moment with 
the change in orders. 

The passage of lines necessary to permit the Seventieth 
Brigade to attack was not required on the left, for Eis- 
tine had made it the day before. The formation for 
the attack was with two battalions of the attacking regi- 
ment in the front line, and one in support. The regi- 
ments of the Sixty-ninth were to form in column of bat- 
talions. 

A machine gun company was attached to each front 
line battalion, and the 128th Machine Gun Battalion was 



150 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

attached to the Sixty-ninth Brigade. Tanks were as- 
signed to the attacking brigade of infantry, to be used as 
the brigade commander thought fit. 

Col. Delaplane of the 140th, on the right, received at 
5 :05 a. m. his orders to attack at 5 :30. This hardly gave 
him time to send word to his battalion commander. The 
orders said a five-minute artillery barrage would precede 
the attack. He passed his regiment through the 138th, 
and was ready approximately on time, but the artillery 
was silent. In the growing daylight the enemy's fire was 
becoming stronger and more accurate each minute, both 
artillery and machine guns playing on the ground over 
which the regiment was to advance. Delaplane decided 
it was useless to sacrifice men waiting for our own artil- 
lery to open, so he ordered the advance without it. 

How vital the artillery is to the infantry was made 
clear as soon as the 140th began to move over the high 
open ground which lay between them and the enemy. Un- 
hampered by fire from our guns, German machine guns^ 
apparently in great numbers laid a withering fire across 
the flat top of Hill 218. Charpentry and the road leading 
to the northeast out of the town seemed alive with enemy 
gunners and guns. 

The heavy artillery fire and the more accurate fire from 
anti-tank guns made it impossible for the tanks to advance. 
The 140th was paying a fearful price for the little ground 
it was gaining, and the advance slowed up and stopped. 
Orders were to dig in and hold the ground gained. 

In the 138th, which was supporting the 140th, Capt. 
Thompson was put in command of L and M companies, 
and ordered to maintain combat liaison between the right 
flank of the 35th Division and the left flank of the Ninety- 
first Division. He moved out on this mission. 



THE ARTILLERY PRESSES FORWARD 151 

The other elements of the regiment were hardly moved 
by the morning attack, as they were to follow at a dis- 
tance of 1000 meters, and the advance of the 140th did 
not seem to exceed that. A steady fire from artillery fell 
on the position they held, and with it a constant attrition 
of dead and wounded. The dressing stations were up 
with the troops and an endeavor was made to evacuate 
all casualties immediately, but it was not entirely success- 
ful. 

On the other half of the field Ristine's orders to ad- 
vance had been changed to 6:30 a. m. as a result of the 
compromise between the first order for 8 :30 and the second 
order for 5:30. 

Up to 6:30 the artillery was silent. Eistine notified 
brigade headquarters of this, and also that he was ready 
to attack as soon as the artillery opened. 

He received no reply from the brigade and there was 
no sound of any important artillerying except from the 
enemy, and the hour had passed, so he attacked without 
it, as Delaplane had done an hour before. His formation 
caught the full fire of the enemy artillery and machine 
guns. Ristine was able to advance, but as he saw the 
swaths the opposing fire was making in his ranks, he de- 
cided the price was too heavy. He halted his regiment, 
ordered the men to dig in, and sent a message to brigade 
headquarters that he could not advance further without 
artillery support. 



CHAPTER XXIV 



THE NIGHT ATTACK— CHARPENTRY AND 
BAULNY TAKEN 

The situation at 10 o'clock on the morning of Sept. 27 
was about like this : 

Although badly tangled by the fighting through the 
fog on the first day the infantry had attacked on the 
morning of the second day while still in the spirit of vic- 
tory, but before there had been time or opportunity to re- 
organize the units. The morning was cold and cheerless, 
threatening with rain, but the spirit of the division was 
not of the volatile kind which would change, because of 
the weather. The men were uplifted and upheld by a con- 
viction that they could whip the Germans, given an even 
break in big gun fire, aerial observation and the other 
side lines of battle. 

They advanced the second day along the whole division- 
al front, Avithout artillery preparation or a barrage, or at 
best with a very thin one. The enemy was strengthened 
at every point and he had brought fresh troops, espe- 
cially machine gunners, to stop the American advance. It 
was not a common line of German troops, battered by a 
thorough artillery pounding, against which the Thirty- 
fifth moved the second day. It was a rebuilt line of 
thoroughly tried troops, nearly all machine gunners, 
equaling the best men in the German army. The artillery 
advantage was with the enemy. 

The troops started out under Gen. Traub's orders. The 

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CHARPENTRY AND BAULNY TAKEN 153 

price paid for the ground gained was too great. It was 
an unprofitable commerce. By command of their regi- 
mental commanders, they stopped and dug in. 

Throughout the division there was always much argu- 
ment and boasting and knocking going on between the 
guardsmen who had sei*ved on the Mexican Border 
and those w^ho had not. Those who had not called the 
others the ''Cactus Veterans." As the men lay before 
Charpentry, held up by all the fire the Germans could 
give from three sides, a tall, red-headed sergeant rose 
from his foxhole, and looking about the prostrate lines, 
yelled, ''What have you Cactus birds got to say about 
this?" 

Approximately a thousand meters behind the regiments 
of the Seventieth Brigade (the 139th and the 140th) were 
the 137th and 138th, of the Sixty-ninth Brigade. They 
were in support, but there was such a profusion of German 
fire that each of them was constantly taking casualties. 

It is a distressing thing for troops to lie under fire, and 
wait for aid. It was impossible to reorganize under con- 
ditions such as existed on the morning of the 27th, and 
while little additional intermingling of units resulted, the 
mixing done the day and night preceding was not rem- 
edied. 

Ristine heard of tanks in his rear, sent for them, and at 
noon tried to move forward again. He placed the tanks 
on his right and formed his right wing behind them. That 
part of the line moved faster than his left, but the artil- 
lery and anti-tank fire was too heavy, so the tanks turned 
and retired from the field. This left Ristine's right well 
ahead of his left, but the troops dug in again and held 
the crooked line. 

Our guns were beginning to open occasionally, and 



154 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

noting this, Eistine sent word to brigade headquarters 
that if it would give him 30 minutes' destructive fire on 
Charpentry and Baulny, and a barrage in front of that 
part of his line which was east of the road, he could 
move forward. It was out of Baulny and Charpentry 
that the heaviest opposing fire was coming. Ristine 
feared to move his left forward because of the artillery 
fire which came from across the river in the sector of the 
Twenty-eighth Division. It was apparent that the Twen- 
ty-eighth had not advanced as far as the Thirty-fifth and 
this left the Thirty-fifth's left flank exposed to the 
enemy. 

Receiving no word as to artillery support, Ristine 
pulled his right back to the line of his left, ordered the 
men to dig in and called a meeting of battalion and com- 
pany commanders to see how he stood. Then at 5 p. m., 
he received orders to attack at 5 :30. 

The attack for 5:30 was ordered by divisional head- 
quarters when it became apparent that the morning at- 
tack had failed of its purpose. The corps and the army 
demanded an advance. The division had tried, but was 
stopped and held in its tracks. The other eight divisions 
were attacking with varying results, but for the success 
of the operation, all must go ahead. 

Gen. Traub received this message from General Pershing 
and immediately ordered the night attack: 

27 September, 4 :30 p. m. 
From C in C. 

He expects the 35th Division to move forward. He 
is not satisfied with the Division being stopped by ma- 
chine gun nests here and there. He expects the Divi- 
sion to move forward now in accordance to orders. 

Officers and men of the Thirty-fifth believed it was one 



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155 



of the best divisions in France. At 5:30 the division stood 
upon its feet amidst its dead, and prepared to advance, 
to show whether it was as good a fighting outfit as it 
believed it was. 

Just before the hour of the attack, nine tanks, probably 
the same ones which had fought so well before Cheppy, 
came chugging over the road from Very, through the 
position of the 138th and out onto the front of the 140th. 




GERMAN PRISONERS 



The infantry attacked with them. That was on the right 
of our line. On our left Ristine gave orders quickly to 
his officers in conference, and sent them hurriedly back 
to their commands. His intelligence officer, Lieut. Cos- 
grove, formerly of the 138th, and Capt. Brown, regi- 
mental Adjutant, already were dead in the day^s fighting. 
There was less than half an hour for preparation. 

Guiding well to the left and attacking Charpentry and 
Baulny almost from the south, the 139th came out of its 



156 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

foxholes like war dogs off the leash. They took a singe- 
ing fire full in the face, charged over the machine guns 
and stamped them out like nests of rats and with assist- 
ance of other units, had taken both Charpentry and 
Baulny before stopping to count the cost. The line they 
could not breach in the morning was no weaker. It did 
not crumble. But it was as if our men had gathered 
strength as they lay waiting through the day, and in the 
afternoon the Germans could not stop them. 

Captain Haftle led the 3d Battalion of the 139th against 
Baulny and took it. 

Some men of the 2d Battalion of the 138th also assisted 
in the taking of Charpentry, as did parts of the 137th 
regiment. 

Lieut. Axline of E Compan}^ 139th, was wounded as 
his outfit was passing through the wire, a mile northwest 
of Charpentry. A machine gun bullet passed through 
his chest. He put his hand over the hole, concealing the 
wound, and stayed with his men until they were out of 
the dangerous path through the wire, then fell behind, 
dropped into a shell hole and died. 

Ristine thought he could prevent his regiment from 
mixing more than it had already if he kept well to the 
front, so he accompanied the advancing line. Rieger and 
the other battalion commanders were to handle the rest 
of the regiment as it was disposed for battle. 

They went forward fast, once the stiff crust of the Ger- 
man position was cracked. The Second Battalion, Eieger's, 
pulled up near to Montrebeau wood. Ristine went even 
faster, too fast altogether, as will be shown. 

The 137th had started to advance in the morning be- 
hind the 139th, had halted when the leading regiment 



CHARPENTRY AND BAULNY TAKEN 157 

halted, and had lain all day on the wet field, under shell 
and indirect machine gun fire. 

At 5:30 p. m., Maj. O'Connor of the 137th received or- 
ders to attack at 5:30, and at the same time he was ad- 
vised that Col. Hamilton was *'out," whether by wound, 
sickness, or orders not being explained, and that Maj. 
O'Connor was in command of the regiment. O'Connor' 
set his troops in motion and hurried to regimental head- 
quarters to get the stait' and learn just what the situation 
was. Near there he met the brigade commander, who or- 
dered him to advance with the troops. 

He hurried ahead and caught up with his outfit just 
as the Fii'st Battalion was advancing against Baulny. 
O'Connor got together a scratch detachment, including 
part of L Company of the 139th, and went through Baulny, 
I)robably as early as Ristine's men did. There was some 
fighting in Baulny, 20 prisoners were taken, and 'Connor 
pushed ahead. 

With his outfit he pressed on in the darkness for prob- 
ably four kilometers, which would have carried him into 
the outskirts of Fleville, meeting no opposition anywhere. 
The Germans seemed to him to be withdrawing. 

His scouts found no other elements of the Thirty-fifth 
on either side, so he decided that he must be too far ahead 
of the others, and that it would be wise to get back in 
liaison. On both sides of his detachment he heard work- 
ing parties, and the rumble of wheels, indicating that the 
Germans were retreating. 

On the way back he found part of the 139th Machine 
Gun Company, and he also ran across in the darkness, Col. 
Shannon, of the general staff, who had come up to ob- 
serve the action. Shannon returned to the line with Maj. 
'Connor. 



158 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

They heard a voice in the woods yelling, in German, 
''Oh, Gus.'* O'Connor had one of his men who spoke 
German to shout a reply. In this way they drew the 
German up to them and captured him. He said he had 
left the retreating troops to try and find his "bunkie" 
who had become lost from the main body. 

O'Connor's detachment returned to the established 
line north of Baulny. He found it was composed of most 
of the First Battalion of the 137th, and the machine gun 
company of the 137th and three companies of the 139th 
and the 139th machine gun company. Into these were 
mixed, and badly mixed, men of several other companies. 
The whole bunch was in a little hollow too much crowded, 
Maj. O'Connor thought, and badly organized for resist- 
ance. He tried to improve the disposition for resistance, 
but did not essay to redistribute the units, which would 
have been a hopeless task in the darkness. It was after 
midnight, so there they dug in, and lay for the rest of the 
night. 

The late afternoon attack on the right was meeting al- 
most as much success. Behind the tanks, Delaplane's 
140th went surging ahead, cleaned the machine gun nests 
which had held them up, took a battery of artillery, and 
rested on the edge of the hill to the north, when renewed 
violence of artillery met them. The first battalion of the 
140th went well beyond Charpentry, and was out of touch 
with the regiment until the following day. 

The 138th advanced behind the 140th. It had been un- 
der fire all day, held in its place, suffering casualties, and 
unable to return a blow. The machine guns felt out the 
enemy positions, but there was nothing of the winning 
action of the day before. 

From Charpentry there ran to the northeast a fine, 



CHARPENTRY AND BAULNY TAKEN 159 

straight road, 2000 years old, for it was built by the Ro- 
mans to connect up their outposts when they first invaded 
Gaul. Tall trees, many of them shell-shattered, stood at 
equal distances along the road. At the foot of every tree 
there was a machine gun emplacement. The gunners 
placed there were of the kind who fight to the last and 
who do not surrender. No prisoners were taken along 
that line of trees, but our men went through. 

At about 3 p. m. the enemy put a concentration of fire 
on the position held by the First Battalion. It was largely 
high explosive and gas, and it did considerable damage. 
Lieut. Brown was wounded and Col. Parker, commanding 
the regiment, ordered the battalion to withdraw to the shel- 
ter of a ravine, which it did. Capt. Crist was gassed and 
Lieut. Brightfield took command of the battalion. 

When the advance came at 5 :30, the 138th moved up 
behind the 140th, and its position when it dug in was not 
far from that occupied by the 140th during the day. The 
fire which daylight observation permitted the enemy ar- 
tillery to put on this section continued through the night, 
and the 138th suffered heavily. 

Lieut, Bazan, commanding G Company, was killed, and 
Capt. Meier, commanding the battalion, was wounded at 
the same time, about 10 p. m. Lieut. Leahy, who had done 
so well in the Vosges raid, took command of the battalion. 
The Third Battalion, under Capt. Bottger was on the right, 
and Capt. Thompson, with two companies, maintained com- 
bat liaison with the Ninety-first Division. 

Lieut. Bazan, a boy from Moberly, Mo., had commanded 
G Company from the beginning of the action. He was ly- 
ing on the ground, and around him were scattered many 
men of his company. Sergeant Rives started to give his 
company commander first aid. Bazan said: "Don't waste 



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any time on me. Take care of these other men first. I am 
going to die. You can save them." He gave the same or- 
der to Sergeant Ferguson, when he wanted to bandage the 
Lieutenant's wound. Bazan died while waiting for his 
turn. I do not know of a case of higher heroism or purer 
devotion to duty and the cause. It is the purpose of the 
medical men to salvage as many men as possible. Bazan felt 
that there was little salvage left in him and he deliberately 
turned away the men who would have endeavored to save 
his life, in order that they might attend other soldiers, less 
seriously wounded, that they might come back and fight 
another day. Pie believed that he was dying and his 
thoughts were aimed at making the force in whose service 
he had taken this fatal wound a stronger force in the days 
to come. Only a very brave man, even if he believes his 
own chance is slight, can deny himself the help of the men 
who will give him his one little chance of life. 

On the night of the 27th, after L Company had moved 
forward, Capt. Clarence Sodeman was killed instantly. 
He had disposed his men and ordered them to dig in, and 
was walking along the position to see if they were prop- 
erly placed when he was hit. 

So ended the second day, Sept. 27, with increasing cas- 
ualties among men and officers, only a small part of which 
casualties I have mentioned. 

When the men finally dug in for the night, the main 
mass of the troops were beyond Baulny, and some of the 
more dashing elements probably were as far advanced as 
Montrebeau Wood. Rieger was in Montrebeau Wood. 

There was a fairly distinct line, but the mixing of ele- 
ments was growing worse. Every regiment, in its space, 
doubtless had elements of every other regiment. De- 
tachments were strung along back toward Cheppy, and 



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there was a determined, but seldom successful effort, by- 
all commanders to get up rations from Cheppy. 

The men were physically tired, many of them thirsty, 
and some hungry, although the iron rations were not yet 
exhausted. But the spirit was excellent. Despite the 
mixing of elements and the loss of officers, the morale 
was high, and it was a fine, determined fighting organiza- 
tion that filled the foxholes which dotted the ground from 
Baulny eastward. 

In all four regiments on the second day, there was a 
scarcity of water. The water carts had not come up, and 
virtually every available source of water on the field was 
under suspicion, and its use forbidden to the men. It was 
supposed that the Germans, before retiring, had poisoned 
the wells and springs. Canteens had been emptied, and 
the men felt badly the need of water. 

Close behind the infantry in every advance went men 
of the sanitary train to test the water in newly taken ter- 
ritory. Every well, spring or creek was labeled *' Poi- 
soned, " ' ' Do not drink : May be used for washing, " ' ' Good 
drinking water,'' or whatever the analysis showed. Tests 
were made rapidly and the men who made them, soldiers 
for everything except that they carried a testing set in- 
stead of a rifle, worked under the same conditions of shell 
fire and machine gun fire that the infantry did. 

In the area over which the 35th Division advanced 
there were found seven wells or springs which the tests 
showed should be labeled *' Poison.'* 



CHAPTER XXV 



RISTINE IN THE GERMAN LINES 

It was nearly dark when Charpentry was taken on the 
evening of September 27. The objective of that attack 
was a line running through Exermont, 4 kilometers 
further north. Col. Ristine decided to push forward and 
follow up the success of the late afternoon, believing the 
troops would reach the objective. His two runners were 
killed in the barrage before Charpentry, and the troops on 
both sides of him killed or wounded by machine gun fire 
or artillery. Only his Adjutant, Lieut. James H. McCord, 
accompanied Ristine when they reached the valley of 
Charpentry. There in the dusk some of our troops were 
taking prisoners from dugouts, others were fighting on 
the right and left and some troops were going up the hill 
across the valley. In the late dusk he could not tell 
whether they were Americans or Germans, but supposed 
they were forward elements of our lines. 

Lieut. McCord was severely wounded and Ristine pro- 
ceeded alone, expecting to get with our leading elements, 
get hold of some more runners and keep things going, while 
they were going good. 

Just before Charpentry cemetery he was met with 
heavy machine gun fire. He lay low for some time, until 
the fire in his immediate front died down. 

He finally went forward into the cemetery and emerged 
from it to the west, and some distance off ran into a 
Lieutenant and five privates from the 137th. They told 

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him the front Imes had gone forward and the party set 
out to catch up with them. They cut such wires as they 
could, and bombed dugouts. They could hear fighting 
on their right, left and front. The party of seven had 
three automatic rifles. 

Ristine had no idea our troops had stopped long before 
and that he was headed for the enemy lines. 

When they reached a point near Camp Drachen or the 
hill just south of the valley which leads to Exermont they 
ran into the Germans. No one was talking, although 
they could hear troops all around and some very near. 
Ristine yelled at them, ' ' What outfit is this ? ' ' There was 
no answer, but he soon learned it was part of the German 
Army, in retreat. Ristine did not know what to do. It 
was so dark he could tell very little about the terrain, he 
had lost his flash light, although he could not have used 
it if he had had it. He did not want to be surrounded 
and he hated to retire from a retiring foe. 

Ristine believes if he had not called to the Germans, he 
could have joined them with safety. The Americans de- 
cided to move back to the top of the crest behind them, 
and there they crawled into a new shell hole, large 
enough to accommodate all. They set in to organize it 
and dig it out in the bottom to make things more com- 
fortable and decided they could hold out until the other 
troops arrived. They figured they would not be discov- 
ered before morning and in the daylight they could fight 
it out for awhile. They constructed auto rifles positions 
on four sides of the hole and had themselves comfortable 
in the bottom when the German machine gunners began 
to get active. Soon it became apparent that two ma- 
chine guns were crossing their fire over the shell hole. 
This indicated the enemy intended to stay where he was 



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until he got the Americans. The seven Americans talked 
the matter over and Ristine finally decided that he could 
not justify himself in compelling the men to accompany 
him. They were surrounded by the Germans and any 
movement of as many men as were in the shellhole would, 
indubitably be observed, whereas one man or two men 
might move about unhindered. Finally Col. Ristine gave 
the men permission to go whatever way they chose. ** Ev- 
ery man for himself,'* he ordered. 

The matter was discussed in detail. Ristine felt sure 
that the enemy would have placed men in the rear of the 
shell holes, and on both flanks, in the hope either of kill- 
ing or capturing the Americans when they tried to es- 
cape. He argued, therefore, that the best tactics was to 
crawl out and move forward toward the GeiTrian lines. 
After an advance of one or two hundred yards in that 
direction, he suggested turning to the right or left, cir- 
cling the troops guarding the shell hole, and returning to 
the Americans' own lines. The others did not like this 
plan, so Ristine set out alone. He crawled out of the hole 
and for a long distance directly toward the enemy, then 
turned and walked parallel to the positions he supposed 
the lines to occupy. 

After Ristine had had time to get a hundred meters 
away, two other men crawled out of the shell hole. They 
were never seen again and doubtless were killed soon after 
emerging. Next, one man made the attempt and he was 
hit just as he went over the edge and fell back into the 
shell hole dead. The other four remained in the shell 
hole and were taken prisoners by the Germans. 

By that time, Ristine was walking about inside the Ger- 
man lines. It was very dark and he could not look at 
his map, and he knew it would be poor policy to stop 



RISTINE IN THE GERMAN LINES 165 

for any length of time and examine closely his prismatic 
compass. On these compasses the needle is illuminated 
like the hands on the illuminated dial of a watch. 

He found the Germans in hurried retreat. It was al- 
most a rout. From the American guns there came a slight 
''interdiction" fire. There was not sufficient artillerying 
to do any great damage, but it w^as enough to keep the 
Germans from forming or getting into groups. This was 
a great assistance to the wandering American, because if 
the Germans themselves were scattered, one man wander- 
ing alone would excite no comment and there would be 
no question as to why he was not connected with his or- 
ganization. It was a very dark night, and a cold, steady 
rain was falling, as no one will forget who was in the val- 
ley of the Aire on the night of September 27th, 1918. 

The armies were very close together. No one knew ex- 
actly how close. No lights were shown in the open by 
either army. The only lights were in dugouts with well 
blanketed doors, and the flash lights under cover at the 
dressing stations where the surgeons worked over wounded 
men. The retreating Germans were going about their busi- 
ness with the greatest haste possible. While virtually all 
the movement was backward there was the incidental nec- 
essary movement of men forward and in directions parallel 
to the front. 

Ristine came across a dugout apparently deserted which 
had been headquarters for a German officer. The officer's 
kit was laid out ready to be packed for departure. Ris- 
tine, who was very hungry, thoroughly chilled and wet 
through, had no overcoat of his own so he took the Ger- 
man officer's coat and put it on. I don't know whether 
it occurred to him at the time that this action would have 
made him a spy in the eyes of the enemy if he had been 



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captured and that it would doubtless have brought the 
summary punishment a spy received. 

He adopted a course of action which he thought would 
be the most like that employed by a German officer mov- 
ing about within his own lines at that time. Whenever he 
passed near a working party, he moved as if he had some 
pressing business on hand. He had always to pretend by 
his actions that he was very busy and had to hurry some 
place to attend to this business. He figured that the 
chances of being discovered were slight as long as the 
darkness covered him and as long as he did not try to es- 
cape from the German lines. The fact that he wore an 
American helmet did not cause him great concern because 
in the darkness it would be almost impossible for an ob- 
server to discover that. 

I am not sure that it would have meant instant dis- 
covery even if the identity of the helmet had become 
known. In our own lines I have seen American soldiers 
wearing German helmets without drawing any comment 
except ridicule. There was a general belief that the Ger- 
man helmet gave more protection to the neck than the flat 
American metal hat. 

Whenever he came to a road Ristine walked along it 
just as if he had all the business in the world there. When 
there was no one near, he endeavored to orient himself 
and discover the best way back home. When anyone ap- 
proached he immediately again took on the air of being a 
very industrious person going on some very important 
mission and brazened his way through. 

There was very little talking among the Germans. From 
weariness or because of orders, or possibly because it was 
their training, they talked very little in their work, and 
always in a low tone of voice. 



RISTINE IN THE GERMAN LINES 167 

Ristine decided that if he were challenged he would 
respond gruffly if forced to respond at all and if the chal- 
lenger became insistent, he would shoot him and do his 
best to escape in the darkness. He would have had a very 
good chance at this. To carry out this plan, from the time 
he left the shell hole until he was within the American 
lines at the 28th division headquarters he carried his Colt 
automatic in his hand constantly, more than 24 hours. 

It seems strange now that in all this time he was never 
challenged, but it is only from the viewpoint of civilian 
life that such a thing does seem strange. 

It was my observation that a battle field at night in 
open warfare was unlike anything that I had conceived 
it to be. In an organized trench system, of course, there 
would be a proper arrangement of sentries and guards 
and it would be impossible for one to move about much 
without being challenged. But in the open field where 
the tired men lay down to sleep at night, there is endless 
confusion. And if the army is in retreat there is no sleep, 
which only adds to the general appearance and feeling of 
disorganization. Almost the only guards are in the open 
out in front of the foe, watching for a counter attack. 
There are none except traffic men within the lines. Offi- 
cers and men are moving in all directions on a hundred 
different missions. They are endeavoring to get their own 
outfits in shape for movement. They are trying to find 
their commands. They are looking about to see if the ma- 
terial under their control is being properly handled and 
cared for. They are seeking comrades to whom they have 
entrusted their belongings. They are going back to the 
dugout last occupied to get the papers and maps left there. 
They are going forward to see if the traffic jam has been 
cleared and the road is open for them. They are going 



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to the left or right to find if the unit they are to follow 
is ready to move. 

It would be impossible for all this work to be done with 
speed (and speed is the prime essential), if every man 
moving about had to stop at sentries placed one hundred 
yards apart and give the countersign and explain his 
business before being allowed to proceed. It was often 
commented upon by correspondents that whereas one must 
be armed with all proper papers and credentials, passes 
and passwords when he was twenty kilometers back of the 
line, yet if he once got to the front he could wander at 
will without let or hindrance. 

Through the first night, because of the darkness and 
rains, proximity of troops and his inability to locate him- 
self, Ristine found no opportunity to return to his own 
lines. His wanderings took him almost to Chatel Che- 
hery. The point to which he did go was not always left 
to his decision. If he happened to be proceeding in one 
direction and Germans appeared, it became necessary for 
him to speed up and pretend to be going about this im- 
portant affair that he had on his mind. 

The enemy was destroying ammunition near Fleville. 
From a hill hear Chatel Chehery, Ristine could see by the 
light of the flames of other accumulations of ammunition 
or supplies nearby. He made a mental note of this to be 
referred to when he could next look at his map. 

In the dusk and fog of the early morning the Germans 
became very active. Ristine thought the Americans were 
in Apremont and he was endeavoring to reach the river and 
at that time he heard and saw troops moving out of it 
towards him. He figured at once that they could not be 
Americans because if the 28th division was in Apremont 
they would not be coming into the sector of the 35th. He 



RISTINE IN THE GERMAN LINES 169 

crept as close as he could to the movmg column and lis- 
tened attentively until he heard something said in German. 
Then he crept back and sought for cover against the com- 
ing day. 

There was a hedge which ran across a vacant field. The 
rank grass was dead and rain soaked. The field had been 
untended for four years and the hedge untrimmed for the 
same time. There was a road nearby which Eistine had 
to come down and on this road he had passed many Ger- 
mans and he had been forced to pass very close to some 
of them. He knew that with the daylight his discovery 
was certain unless he found concealment. He crawled un- 
der the boughs of the hedge and stealthily creeping for- 
ward some 30 yards, found a place from which he could 
watch both sides of his position and there he composed him- 
self to spend the day. 

By raising his head slightly he could see, on one side, the 
main highway to Fleville. By looking the other way, he 
could see the road that led to Apremont. He observed 
a battery of four cannon coming from his right. They 
pulled into the field alongside of the hedge, limbered and 
within 30 minutes were in action. They were German 
guns. 

Soon many machine gunners appeared and also took 
position in the open field. Under the accepted rules of the 
game, these machine gunners would have taken position 
along the hedge but the Germans dug foxholes in the open, 
put the excavated earth in bags and carried it away. With 
a few boughs in front of their position they were ready 
to work. All day long Eistine lay in the hedge watching 
the enemy battery and machine gunners work. 

Within the American lines that day Captain Nesbit of 
the 130th Machine Gun Battalion was ordered to take his 



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company over the hill and down the road towards TEsper- 
ance. As soon as he crossed the top of the hill he ran into a 
very heavy fire from the opposing machine guns. He had 
many killed and wounded. Finally his men took cover in 
the ditches and foxholes in the side of the road and he was 
able to bring back over the hill only about 15 men. A 
higher officer seeing him there, said, ''Who are you?'* 

'*I am Captain Nesbit of the 130th Machine Gun Com- 
pany," he replied. 

''Where is your company?" 

"This is my company," said Nesbit, pointing to the lit- 
tle group of 15 men. 

' ' Well, you don 't want to be wasting time around here, * * 
said the high officer when Nesbit had explained the disas- 
ter which had befallen his command. 

The burst of machine gun fire which had shot up Nes- 
bit 's outfit came from the 20 or 25 guns which had been 
hurriedly placed near Ristine's point of concealment. 
Later investigation showed they were placed so as to com- 
mand that stretch of road. 

The location of any point on the map is given ordinarily 
by the use of numbers, a series of numbers will run across 
the top of the map and a series of different numbers 
along the sides. Thus if the co-ordinates given were 27.2 
66.1 one would go to the map, follow the line from the 
top down the parallel and decimal given, then run a line 
from the side along the parallel and decimal given and 
where the lines cross would be the identical point on the 
map which the co-ordinates indicate. This method is used 
almost entirely in directing the fire of artillery. 

Eistine noticed that the German airplanes flying back 
from over the American front would swoop low above the 
battery alongside of him and then seem to be telegraphing 



RISTINE IN THE GERMAN LINES 171 

with their machine guns. ''Tap tap — tap tap tap — tap — 
tap tap tap tap tap — tap" it would go. Very soon there- 
after, in just about sufficient time for the gunners to make 
their adjustments, the battery would open again. It seems 
reasonable that this method was employed by the aviators 
to communicate the locations in the American lines which 
they desired the battery to fire upon. 

Eistine believes that the German machine gunners also 
employed this method of communication with one another. 
Of the 25 guns which had emplacement near him none 
seemed to be firing in straight bursts or firing out a clip or 
belt at a time, but they were worked spasmodically and 
brokenly, exactly as if they were transmitting a telegraphic 
message. Some of the machine guns seemed to fire through 
the hedge in which Ristine lay. Little clipped pieces of 
leaves kept falling about him. 

From the direction of the American lines came sounds 
which occasionally had meaning for him. Twice during 
the day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, 
he heard tanks enter Baulny. These were the French 
tanks coming up to assist in the next attack. 

In the afternoon, the American artillery fired sporad- 
ically upon the machine gunners and artillery in Ristine 's 
neighborhood. They failed to get the artillery, but one 
machine gunner about 75 feet from Ristine was hit. The 
gunner made one loud cry and lay still. 

Some of the shells fell very near to Ristine, and he 
thought, ' ' What rotten luck it would be to be killed by an 
American shell at such a time and place as this." The 
screech of one shell told that it was coming very near. 
He instinctively pulled his head between his shoulders and 
waited. He felt the impact as it hit the earth and threw 
dirt upon his head. He held his breath and waited for 



172 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

the explosion which meant extinction. But it did not come. 
The shell was a dud. He cautiously extended his arm 
forward and felt the smooth bore the shell had made in 
the wet earth, only three feet from his head. 

Ristine had plenty of time as he lay under the hedge to 
meditate on the art of war. He decided that henceforth 
when his regiment attacked, it would be at night. He felt 
it was all wrong to subject his men to the terrific fire of 
machine guns, automatic rifles and artillery which had had 
direct observation. He figured out a scheme whereby all 
arrangements for a night attack should be made in ad- 
vance, the artillery to lay a barrage on a point which was 
to be 100 meters beyond the objective. The firing would 
begin, the infantry would go over and move forward 
through the darkness to a line just back of the barrage 
and there they would dig in and hold fast until morning, 
organizing the position during the night. When morning 
came they would mop up by daylight, kill or capture all 
the enemy that lay between their new position and the one 
they advanced from in the night. 

The advantages of this plan, he conceived, would be 
many, and chief among them was that the enemy artillery 
could not fire on the advancing troops with flat trajectory. 

If machine guns were met, they could be easily dis- 
patched because a machine gun firing at night in the open 
must reveal its location by the flash and show the direction 
of its fire also by the flash. It would be simple work, Ris- 
tine decided, to go against this sort of opposition in the 
open field by night, whereas by day it was slaughter. 

The passage of the day, the movement of the sun be- 
hind the heavy clouds, the direction of the German ar- 
tillery, the arrival of the American shells, the glimpses he 
had of the terrain about him all helped Ristine to locate 



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himself pretty accurately and when darkness came he knew 
which way to go to get home. As soon as the covering night 
gave him sufficient protection he crawled out of the hedge 
and started down what doubtless was the main National 
Fleville Highway. 

He passed few German soldiers along the road although 
there was an occasional dead horse to be seen. In the 
darkness he could observe alongside the road gun emplace- 
ments identified only because they were in a deeper gloom 
than the surrounding territory. There would be two or 
three of these, then a dugout. He is convinced that these 
were all full of Germans but still he was not challenged. 
Anyone seeing him pass doubtless would assume that he 
was merely an officer going about some business. Leaving 
the road he bore to the right and soon came to what he at 
first thought was a lake. It was a wide place in the River 
Aire. 

Between him and the river was a heavy band of barbed 
wire. He crawled along the wire for a long way trying to 
find an opening, but there was none, and he had to climb 
over. The posts were rotten, and some of them broke. 
A flare went up behind him, and Ristine lay back on the 
barbed wire as on a feather bed. He lay there a while and 
rested, for he had watched machine guns playing across 
that wire all day long. When he went ahead again he 
twice became tangled in the wire, and made noises which 
caused flares to go up again, but at last he won through 
and to the river's bank. He slid down into the water to 
wade across, found it too deep, and returned to the shore 
and continued southward seeking a shallow place. 

As he started forward, from a great distance he could 
hear voices. He knew they were not German, because the 
Germans did not talk that loud at night. They were Amer- 



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leans and they were swearing, apparently at the mules. 

Ristine at this time had been without sleep, or had had 
very little sleep, for 72 hours. He had had no food for a 
day and a half. He had been wet through and thoroughly 
chilled. He was carrying his helmet and gas mask, his 
automatic pistol, his cartridge belt, ditty bag and was 
wearing the heavy German overcoat. In his exhausted 
condition he did not believe he would be able to swim the 
river in spite of his usual splendid physique. 

Three times he made the attempt to wade but on each 
occasion the river was too deep. He finally found a tree 
which had been felled across the river by the Germans, 
went over it and reached a brigade headquarters of the 
28th division. There was a steep bank to ascend just be- 
fore he came to this place and he had not the strength to 
climb it. He called to some soldiers to help him up. Once 
within the divisional headquarters he was given food and 
coffee. Brig. Gen. Darrah was just being relieved of his 
command and was very much excited about it. 

Ristine wrote a long telegram to General Traub, gave 
him the map co-ordinates of the German battery which 
he had observed working, the machine gun positions, de- 
scribed the machine gun positions, gave the location of the 
dumps near Fleville, and asked that destructive artillery 
fire be laid on these points. He reported that he was 
on his way back and would be present for duty in the morn- 
ing. He then crossed the river again and rejoined his 
command. 



CHAPTER XXVI 



ARTILLERY RIDDLES THE 140TH 

The night of Sept. 27 was employed to the utmost on 
both sides of the weary battle line. Back of the Ameri- 
cans, the greatest effort was devoted to getting up ammu- 
nition and rations, evacuating the wounded and preparing 
for the next day 's work. 

The Germans assembled large reserves, sorted them, and 
during the night they pushed the pick of their army for- 
ward to the positions in front of our lines. They were 
the veteran machine gunners. It is probable that addi- 
tional artillery also was brought to the sector, but it is 
certain that the morning of the 28th found the machine 
guns very strongly increased. The whole front seemed 
to bristle with them. 

The Germans saw the desperate situation which would 
confront them if the Americans were not stopped. The 
Mezieres line of communications w^as threatened. If it 
should be cut the German armies in Northern France and 
Belgium were lost, for they could not be fed, supplied 
with ammunition or brought out of the country, if any 
part of that four-track railway line fell into our hands. 

Dawn of Sept. 28 found the 35th Division lying 
in front of Baulny and Charpentry, approximately a kilo- 
meter back of the road which runs from I'Esperance past 
Chaudron farm and Serieux farm, to Eclisfontaine. It 
was a badly mixed up division. 

The 139th was mostly around Baulny and Charpentry. 
Its Colonel, Ristine, was missing. He was inside the Ger- 

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man lines and in dire peril, but tlie officers of the regi- 
ment did not know this. Each battalion assumed that he 
was with some other battalion. Eieger did not know of 
Ristine's absence, or he would have taken command of the 
regiment, which had suffered severely during the preceding 
day. The regimental adjutant had been killed, the Lieu- 




ACROSS THE RIVER AIRE 

tenant who had succeeded him had become a casualty, the 
liaison officer, the signal officer, and the three officers who 
had charge of the Stokes mortars and the one-pounder, all 
were casualties. As these were virtually all of the officers 
of the headquarters detachment, there was no one left to 
establish a regimental P. C. Rieger's Second Battalion 




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had suffered heavily. The Third Battalion was commanded 
by a Lieutenant and two of the four companies were with- 
out any officers. The First Battalion was commanded by 
a Captain, and he had but one officer to a company. 

During the night, the Second and Third Battalions of the 
137th had moved up and mixed with the 139th. There 
seemed to be no distinct organization in the 139th at that 
time. 

Maj. O'Connor, after his return from his incursion to 
the north, had worked all night organizing the position, 
but he did not know where his other two battalions were, 
assuming that he was in command of the regiment. In 
the early morning, the enemy sent a skirmish line against 
O'Connor's position, apparently more to feel him out than 
to force him to retire. Machine gun and rifle fire swept 
it back, with a good percentage of loss. 

Another attack was ordered for the morning of Sept. 28. 
It was to be launched on the two halves of the divisional 
front at different times, the left or western half in which 
were the 137th and the 139th, was to attack first at 
6:30 a.m. 

Capt. D. H. Wilson, who had taken command of the 
Third Battalion of the 137th when Maj. Koch was wouzided 
at the Balkans trench on the first day, led his men out in 
this advance, although he was suffering from a painful 
wound. The order to advance does not seem to have 
reached Maj. O'Connor, but he was advised that the Second 
Battalion would pass through the lines. He received no 
further information as to whether he was in command of 
the regiment, or whether Col. Hamilton had returned to 
duty. For the 139th, Rieger joined the attack with his 
force, which was already well ahead. 

The attack was made against terrific odds. It was across 



178 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

open fields, with no protection of woods or brush. Mon- 
trebeau Wood and the strip of woods to the right of it 
were seething with machine guns. From Exermont light 
artillery had direct fire on the advancing troops, and from 
the hill behind Exermont, enemy observers watched the 
whole field and directed artillery fire. 

On the left, in the sector of the Twenty-eighth Division, 
was the town of Apremont, which the Twenty-eighth had 
not taken. Out of it came a deadly flanking fire of artil- 
lery and machine guns. Beyond this, artillery in the edge 
of the Argonne Forest had the Thirty-fifth in easy range. 
The Germans had orders to stop this advance, and they 
disposed their armament to do it, or to make us pay the 
cost. 

Our own artillery was a little livelier than on the 27th 
but the enemy had an immense predominance. 

The mixed units advanced. It was under the lowering 
sky of a cold, dark fall day. All the glory was gone out 
of the war, with the glitter and pageantry of the first day's 
successes, but they went ahead. They were not the dashing 
lads who went over the top two days before, but they were 
veterans of battle, hardened soldiers who no longer had any 
delusions about a soldier's life. 

But they advanced across the fire-swept open fields, 
gained the lower edge of the Montrebeau wood and dug a 
hold along its perilous fringe, as Eieger had done. The 
wood itself speaking of it as a whole and in the military 
manner, still remained in the hands of the enemy. 

Montrebeau Wood was a thick tangle of trees and under- 
brush about the size of a square kilometer. It contains, I 
should say on a guess, 240 acres. There were many lines 
and systems of barbed wire entanglements thrown through 
it. The Americans had to cut paths through this wire. 



ARTILLERY RIDDLES THE 140tH 179 

The Germans had trails already made, which they knew, 
but it was difficult and dangerous for our men to find them. 

The wood adapted itself to the kind of warfare our fore- 
fathers made against the Indians. With a sufficient force 
in the edge of the wood, and a source of supply, our men 
could have cleaned out the enemy machine guns and snipers 
by stalking and sniping, but there was no time for this 
more artful war for which they were well fitted. The 
division must advance, so the elements in the wood fought 
slowly and steadily ahead. 

The records begin to show confusion now. This was 
Saturday, Sept. 28. There had been two days of very hard 
and wearying fighting, and three nights in which sleep was 
impossible, unless superinduced by absolute physical ex- 
haustion. The men were tired physically, but they were not 
exhausted. They still had in them the stuff to deliver many 
a blow, or to carry over another charge or two. 

On the right of the sector the 140th was in the lead, and 
the 138th lay just behind it. At 3 :30 in the morning Col. 
Delaplane received an order presumably from the brigade 
commander, to take his regiment forward with all speed 
to protect the flank of the troops on his left, who were 
to advance. These were, of course, the 139th and the 137th 
Eegiments, who were to attack at 6 :30, and who lay in ad- 
vance of the two regiments on the right or eastern side of 
the sector. 

Delaplane got his regiment under way at 5 :30, an hour 
before the advance on the left, and had made but little 
progress up to 8 a. m., when the withering concentration 
of artillery and machine gun fire stopped him. The regi- 
ment dug in. 

Behind the 140th, the 138th was formed to support the 



180 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

attack, with orders to follow at 1000 meters. Maj. Cocke 
of divisional headquarters took the orders to regimental 
headquarters and saw the battalion commanders also. 

Lieut. Leahy moved forward with the second battalion 
(138th) just before daylight, and through heavy opposing 
fire advanced about a kilometer, which placed him to the 
right and fairly well up with the position at which the 
140th had dug in. 

At 6 a. m. Lieut. Brightfield took his battalion, the first, 
ahead, also meeting heavy fire. He gained and dug in on 
the right of the second battalion. 

The third battalion, under Capt. Bottger, was on the right 
and echeloned to the rear. Capt. Thompson, with company 
M, and another platoon or two, was maintaining combat 
liaison with the Ninety-first Division on the right. 

The territory over which this liaison had to be main- 
tained was constantly being widened by the nature of the 
action. The divisional line of advance was swinging to 
the westward, which caused each advancing unit to guide 
more and more to the left. 

This brought about a greater concentration of troops on 
the left and a consequent thinning out of the lines on the 
right. The opposition was heavier on the left half of the 
sector, both because of the stronger positions held by the 
Germans, in front of us, and because, owing to the Twenty- 
eighth Division being unable to keep up, our left flank 
w^as constantly exposed to enfilading fire from across the 
River Aire and out of the Argonne Wood. 

Concerning the Twenty-eighth Division, it would seem 
that this excellent fighting organization was not held up 
so much by opposition on its front, but it, in turn, suffered 
by the division on its left. That was the Seventy-seventh, 
which was tangled in the Argonne Forest, where Maj. 



ARTILLERY RIDDLES THE 140tH 181 

Whittlesly was to achieve fame with his lost battalion, and 
many other daring things were to be done. But the divi- 
sion was not even in signaling distance of the divisions 
fighting in the open. It is to me one of the mysteries of the 
war — ^why was a division from the paved streets of New 
York City sent to fight in the thick woods of the Argonne 
Forest? 

At 9 :45 the tanks came np again. With them was what 
was left of the gallant fleet which had lain before the 
Cheppy defenses on the first day of the fight, like naval 
war craft cannonading the forts before a hostile harbor. 
The enemy fire which met the tanks and the 140th Regi- 
ment which advanced with the tanks, was far more deadly 
than it had been before. The advance was very slow. The 
men were occasionally able to use their rifles against out- 
posts of machine gunners, and our automatic riflemen and 
machine gunners kept constant fire going, but the officers 
and men felt that they received little assistance from our 
artillery. The enemy dominated the air and his planes in 
formation, sometimes as many as 15 at a time, flew over 
the regiment and machine-gunned it. 

It was the bloodiest hour the 140th Regiment had seen. 
The regiment advanced, but paid a heavier price than it 
ever had before. The tanks were not as effective as they 
had been. The enemy had supplied his front line with 
anti-tank guns, long, armor-piercing squirrel rifles. Light 
artillery pushed forward fired pointblank at the slow mov- 
ing tanks, and a hit with a high explosive shell would de- 
stroy a tank. Artillery usually fires by the map, with a 
compass for direction, a scale on the gun to give elevation, 
and a book of tables to compute the necessary elevation 
for the given range. Against these tanks, the gunner 
could disregard his scales and compasses. He would sight 



182 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

through the bore of the gun at the clearly visible tank, 
slam in a shell, close the breech and pull the lanyard. 
The following message went back at noon: 

From : C. 0. 3rd Bn., 140th Inf. At Hostile 2nd posi- 
tion CHAUDEON FARM. Sept. 28th, 12 noon. 
Via Capt. Compton, Tanks. 
To: C. a, 35th Division: 

14i0th Infantry being cut all to pieces by German 
artillery, half or more of first and third battalions 
casualties ; no contact with second battalion or on our 
right or left; we are in severe straits and Boche are 
attacking, artillery from two sides; our line runs 
through the woods of MONTREBEAU along North 
side thereof, and for four or five hundred yards along 
thin strip of woods due East of MONTREBEAU. 
Disaster will result unless we have assistance barrage 
and counter barrage. 

Davy. 

In spite of all resistance, the 140th finally crossed the 
Chaudron road, and pushed 500 yards ahead to the crest 
of the ridge to the north, where they dug in. On the way 
up they were brought to a stop on the ridge above Char- 
pentry and driven back into the ravine. They reformed, 
advanced over the hill again, faced the fire and went ahead. 
The regiment's left was just about due north of the Chau- 
dron farm, and east of the Montrebeau Wood. 

The Commanding General sent this message to Corps 
Headquarters just before noon: 
Sept. 28—11 :30 A. M. 
For Buster 3. 

Our line is now approximately in through EXER- 
MONT ahead of American army objective. Front is 
wide and both fianks badly exposed. Reenforcements 
urgently needed to insure advance being continued. 



ARTILLERY RIDDLES THE 140tH 183 

and flank protected. Artillery and machine gun fire 
from left front in sector of Road Eunner. 

Traub. 

Col. Nuttman reported as follows to the Chief of Staff 
late in the afternoon : 

28 September, 4:45 p. m. 

From Commanding Officer, 69th Brigade, at north of 

12 :45. 

To Chief of Staff. 

One hundred fortieth regiment apparently much 
scattered. It started to advance from east of BAULNY 
at 9 :30 on eastern side of EXERMONT. It has suf- 
fered heavily from shell fire. I have been unable to 
maintain liaison as runners are not trained. Wireless 
has not kept up. Artillery fire from our left flank has 
caused the casualties. I had difficulty this morning in 
collecting and organizing units, getting them forward. 
There are many wounded to be collected. Supports 
and small parties coming up in rear are often held 
up by machine gun nests found by the first lines. 
Colonel Hamilton gave up command at 5:30 p. m. 
yesterday to Major Connor. He said he was exhausted. 
Have not seen nor heard from 138th Inf. as I have con- 
fined my attention to western half of Division sector. 
Liaison patrol to 35th Division has furnished no in- 
formation. Troops seem to need training especially 
officers. Some of my brigade staff are casualties. 
Have sent you three reports before this one. 



CHAPTER XXVII 



THE FRONT LINE IN STRAITS 

Messages which pass in a battle always are full of in- 
terest and significance. They tell parts of the story bet- 
ter than any story can. The following are some of the 
messages which came back from Montrebeau Wood on the 
afternoon of Sept. 28 : 

From 1st Lt. Verne Breese, Co. D., 137th at North 
edge of Montrebeau Woods. Sept. 28, 12 :30 p. m. 
To Oklahoma: 

Are being shelled from both flanks and front. Will 
be impossible to hold without artillery support. Al- 
most out of ammunition. Must have at once. 

1st Lt. Breese, Comdg. 
12 Noon— 

Our lines are in North edge of woods Montrebeau 
(15-95) along a strip running East from those woods. 
Our second line on the line shown on map as second 
hostile line. Receiving artillery fire from Exermont, 
Greaumont, and Le Comple Farm. Must have artil- 
lery counter batterywork and barrage as Germans are 
counter-attacking South. 

12:10 p. m. 

140th Inf. being cut to pieces by German light artil- 
lery and Minnewerf ers coming from 3 sides. We must 
have barrage and counterbattery work or disaster will 
occur. What is left of 1st and 3rd bns. are here with 
some of the 138th. No communication with either 
right or left. Have dug in but being slaughtered by 
artillery. 

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THE FRONT LINE IN STRAITS 185 

From CO. Co. B. 139th Inf. at 01.25-79.30 3 :05 p.m. 

28 Sept. to CO. 70th Brig. 

Am located in northern edge of Montrebeau Woods. 
Am holding these woods with a part of the machine 
gun company of the 137th and a part of A and B of 
137th. D company is with me. I think we can hold 
it but we need support badly. Artillery has flank- 
ing fire on us and is causing severe losses. Have been 
out of touch with Regimental Headquarters all day. 

Sgt. Smith. 

From Lt. Stradel, Liaison from 13Sth Inf. to 69th 
Brig. 4:40 p.m. 28 Sept. At point in valley 400 
yards N. W. of Very. 
Herewith messages from 138th CO. : 

Can you give me location of 69th Brig. Hdq. I 
have received message from 70th Brig. Hrq. at 1 :15 
stating 138th and 140th are ordered to advance to 
army objective and organize for defense. Also 138th 
and 140th under command of Walker 70th Brig. CO. 
If possible notify 69th Brig, to this effect: I have 
sent out many runners and at present cannot locate 
69th Brig. At 9 :30 a.m. 138th Inf. CO. reports about 
65 men per company. 138th need grenades and chau- 
chat ammunition. I have tried to locate 138th Am- 
munition Train, but could not find it. Have also 
sent by runner via 138th I.O. message of the defense 
plan as above mentioned. If possible to inform them 
by phone, please do so. 

When the 140th fell back from the slope of the ridge 
just north of Charpentry, Lieut. Leahy took his second 
battalion of the 138th down the ravine in which they were 
lying and moved forward to the support, thinking 
the 140th would be unable to advance against the opposi- 
tion. When the 140th was reformed and moved on, he 
followed at the ordered distance in their rear, and though 
the enemy fire was constantly growing more effective be- 
cause of increase in volume and accuracy, the battalion 



186 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

advanced and took position in the line with the 140th. 
This advance was made through a gruelling fire, and the 
casualties were very heavy, especially from high-explosive 
shells which the sharp-shooting artillerymen threw among 
the lines. 

Brightfield's first battalion of the 138th held its en- 
trenched position, to which it advanced at 6 a. m., until 
noon. Then the Lieutenant took them forward again and 
crossed to the hill south of Chaudron farm. 

He suffered heavily in this advance, and in the positions 
taken by both the first and second battalions, they con- 
tinued to suffer from artillery fire, to which they were 
able only to reply by rifle fire against the infantry posi- 
tions in their front. Lieutenant- Colonel Parker, com- 
manding the regiment, seeing the loss his regiment was 
suffering, and knowing what a further attempt to advance 
without better artillery support would mean, ordered the 
battalions to retire to the little valley to the southeast of 
Charpentry and to dig in for the night. 

Brightfield's battalion Adjutant, Lieut. Leslie Campbell, 
was killed, and Lieuts. Anderson and Bluhmwere wounded. 
Campbell had been very active, and had spent nearly all 
the preceding night in directing the evacuation of the 
wounded. He was leading his men steadily forward when 
he was killed by a shell. 

The advances and retirements that day were not always 
performed as well as they would have been under more 
favorable circumstances, and the movements were not as 
satisfactorily synchronized. A company of the 138th ad- 
vanced at 10 :30 a.m. to the hollow one kilometer southeast 
of Chaudron farm. There they rested a while, the lee of 
the hillside giving them a little respite from the direct fire. 
At noon Lieut. Sweeney, who commanded the company, 



THE FRONT LINE IN STRAITS 187 

took them forward again, over the desolate hill, across the 
road, past the Montrebeau Wood, which was on their left, 
and into the strip of timber and brush which lies to the 
northeast. They had plenty of fighting with stray ma- 
chine gunners, but their rifles and automatic rifles were 
effective and they gained and took and held the strip of 
woods, where they dug in. 

In this position they felt the full tide of war. Artillery 
played on them both by direct and indirect fire, machine 
guns from three sides poured lead into the w^oods, and 
enemy airplanes in formation flew above them and bom- 
barded them with air bombs and machine-gunned them 
from the sky. 

At 6 p.m. a cold rain began to fall. At 7 p. m. they 
retired, on orders from the regimental commander, to a 
little valley lying between Chaudron farm and the Ser- 
ieux farm and south of the road. They carried with them 
Lieut. Sweeney and 15 other men who had been wounded. 
They buried their dead in the wood. Sergt. Clyde E. 
Heath commanded the company that night. 

The following messages transmitted that day throw a 
grim light on conditions. 

28 September, 5;00 p. m. 

From Cavalry Patrol at MONTREBEAU, 4 :30 p.m. 

to CO 35th (Brigade) 

MONTREBEAU Wood held by our forces. A mix- 
ture of 137, 139 and 140. Cannot find any headquar- 
ters. Infantry held up on north edge of wood by 
heavy machine gun and artillery fire. 

Signed: J. D. Taylor 
Captain 2nd — 
28 September, 6:45 p.m. 
From Delaplane 
To Division Headquarters. 

Have been separated from my Regiment, 140th Inf. 



188 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

Have collected 1 company, 129 Machine Gun battalion, 
3 guns from 91st Brigade, 60 riflemen from various 
organizations. Have entrenched at CHAUDRON 
Road. Have been shelled from east and west by high 
explosives and gas. Filtration of enemy observed 
from directions ECLIS FONTAINE. Shall endeavor 
to hold situation until receipt of instructions. No 
information. 140 A. sent message you have, signed, 
David. No friendly artillery action that I can observe. 

Signed : Delaplane. 

From Major Loy, at Baulny, Sept. 28, 1 :30 p.m. 
To Lt. Col. Hay. 

I am unable to get any information from our bri- 
gade headquarters, can 't find them, still pushing ahead 
but am getting heavy artillery fire from hills on our 
left causing heavy losses trying to get you by phone 
but cannot. 

Major Loy. 

Most of the men had eaten their two days^ supply of 
iron rations, and in spite of the tireless work of supply 
companies, wagon trains, truck trains and every unit en- 
gaged in providing and transporting rations, many men 
went hungry. 

It seems grewsome now to turn over a dead comrade to 
search his pack and take out his emergency rations, but 
this was done many a time, and some men lived the last 
three days of the fight on dead men's rations. At that 
time it seemed the most natural thing to do. And it was. 
It gave more power to the living to complete the work the 
other man had died trying to do. It was the dead man's 
last contribution to the cause. 

Rations always were taken from dead Germans also, 
and eaten with impunity. 

The rolling kitchens were sent forward as fast as possi- 
ble, and put into commission as near the line as was con- 



THE FRONT LINE IN STRAITS 189 

sidered wise. They were slow in getting up, as everything 
else was, due to congestion in traffic and shortage of horse 
and motor transport, but they squeezed through wherever 
they could and followed the doughboys. 

When a kitchen had been established, the mess Sergeant 
or whoever was in charge would try to get into communi- 
cation with his company in front, and when this was done, 
which was all too seldom, a detail would be sent after ra- 
tions, but it was physically impossible to get hot food to 
troops who were fighting nearly all the time. 

Details could get renewals of the ''iron" rations from 
ration dumps, such as the one established in Cheppy, but 
the detail, returning to the line, would be likely to have 
great difficulty in finding its outfit again. 

It is not likely that any two units had the same experi- 
ence in the matter of rations. Everybody went short, and 
some men had nothing but their two days' iron rations 
during the five days. They supplemented this ration with 
what they could get from the packs of dead men. 

In Cheppy on Sept. 28 I came across Henry J. Allen, who 
was soon to be elected governor of far-away Kansas. Chep- 
py was being shelled pretty lively, and we walked away 
from the cross road to talk a moment. Cross roads are a 
bad place in a bombardment. I remembered this meeting 
afterwards when Gen. Traub said Allen did not know any- 
thins: about the battle. 



CHAPTER XXVIII 



NIGHT IN MONTREBEAU WOOD 

That enemy planes had domination of the air on Sept. 
28, as they had predominance of artillery, was plain on 
all sides. The 129th Machine Gun Battalion advanced in 
the morning and took position along a hedge which is some 
200 yards to the north of Chaudron Farm. There they 
were admirably placed to repel a counterattack, and their 
fire tended to keep beaten down enemy activity along to 
the east of Exermont. At 2 p.m., 10 enemy planes swept 
over their line, every one firing on the Missourians with 
machine guns. The machine gunners stayed in front with 
the 140th when the 138th was drawn back after dark. 

The object of this withdrawal, which applied to all 
units of the 138th with which communication could be 
had, was to bring that regiment back and endeavor to 
put it in such shape as to enable it to lead the attack on 
the following day. The 140th was to hold the advanced 
line that night. 

Meantime, the 137th and elements of the 139th had been 
fighting all day long in Montrebeau Wood with the de- 
termined snipers and machine gunners the enemj^ had 
planted there. Col. Hamilton of the 137th was about worn 
out, physically, and Maj. O'Connor, who had not been 
able to get in touch with his colonel for two days, dis- 
posed what he had of the regiment as well as he could 
and ordered them to dig in for the night. O'Connor was 
exhausted and went back to Baulny, where a semblance 
of regimental headquarters was supposed to be, to rest. 

190 



NIGHT IN MONTREBEAU WOOD 191 

Maj. p. C. Kalloch, a young officer of the general staff, 
had been acting as Divisional Intelligence Officer. When 
reports of the shortage of officers in the front line reached 
divisional headquarters, the forv^ard echelon of which 
had been moved to Cheppy, all available officers were 
rounded up and sent forward. Maj. Bruce MacGruder, 
who had come up to help if he could, was put in the in- 
telligence job, and Kalloch was instructed to report to 
Col. Hamilton. At 8 p.m. he found Col. Hamilton in the 
rain and darkness of Montrebeau Wood. The colonel in- 
structed Kalloch to act as his lieutenant-colonel, and Kal- 
loch set about trying to find whatever parts of the regi- 
ment were available, with the idea of learning what 
strength there might be in the tangle of the wood. But 
at 4:50 a.m. (Sept. 29) he was shown an order which 
gave him another piece of work to do. It was for an 
attack by the division at 5:30 a.m. on the 29th. 

The order assured the infantry that there would be a 
satisfactory artillery barrage to precede the advance, the 
object of which was to take the town of Exermont and 
the crests of the ridge running to the east and west of 
it. 

Col. Hamilton instructed Maj. Kalloch to prepare the 
first wave and lead it in the attack. Col. Hamilton was 
to lead the second one himself. 

Montrebeau Wood was black dark, except for the oc- 
casional brief flash of a German shell sent into it. The 
rain was falling heavily, and the business of collecting 
and organizing the attacking wave was a hard one, so 
many of the sleeping men he tried to rouse were dead. 
By the appointed time, which was 40 minutes after the 
order was received, he had marshalled his line. Their 
work is a part of the next day's story. 



192 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

Anotlier officer who went forward that afternoon wab 
a grim old man, as age is reckoned in the army, Maj. 
Clay C. MacDonald, who had been a national guardsman 
for 25 years. He was divisional mail officer, and it seemed 
to be the general impression about headquarters that, 
despite his long experience, he was a little too old for 
the front line. At noon that day in Cheppy, a lieutenant 
had approached Maj. MacDonald, saluted respectfully, 
and in a brief and soldierly manner, told him that his 
son, Lieut. MacDonald, had been killed while leading his 
company in the attack. This w^as the Lieut. MacDonald 
killed on the slopes of Vauquois. Maj. MacDonald did 
not wince. I noted as I watched him, this self-control. 
His training did not permit that while under the gaze 
of so many sympathetic people. His eyes seemed to be 
looking wistfully to the north, where the guns were 
pounding on the battle line three miles away. He sa- 
luted, turned and entered headquarters, explained the 
case briefly and demanded of the chief of staff that 
he be given a command in the front line. He was at 
once sent forward. 

Maj. MacDonald was working through the rain in 
Montrebeau Wood at the same time Kalloch was as- 
sembling and organizing scattered elements of the 137th. 

Maj. Kieger, who also had entered Montrebeau Wood 
on the night of the 27th, had pushed a persistent path 
through the tangle, fighting carefully, adroitly and ef- 
fectively, and always going ahead. Before dark he had 
gained the northern edge of the wood and looked out 
upon the enemy strongholds ahead — Exermont, the line 
of the ridge to the east and west, and behind the town, 
the hill known as 240, which looked over all the territory 
for four kilometers to the south. There were the enemy 



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s. 



NIGHT IN MONTREBEAU WOOD 19^ 

observation posts from which artillery ranges were cor- 
rected, the cannon which had worked such havoc among 
our troops, and the hill itself held much artillery and 
very many machine guns. 

Kieger had organized and held a line in the north edge 
of the woods, and in the darkness had gone back into 
the woods to get more men, if possible, and what he 
needed worse, some officers to help him handle his line. 
He ran across Maj. MacDonald, and soon MacDonald was 
in command of a part of the line. 

Another arrival was Col. Americus Mitchell. He was 
one of the regular army officers assigned to the division 
just before the battle, and was now arriving a little late. 
Bearing orders dated Sept. 24, he reported at division 
headquarters in the afternoon of Sept. 28, and was in- 
structed to report to the commander of the 70th brigade. 

It had been the intention to put Col. Mitchell in com- 
mand of the 139th Regiment, but because of his failure 
to arrive in time, Col. Ristine had continued in command. 
From divisional headquarters he went forward at 6 
p.m. to the Seventieth Brigade, to find his regiment. The 
division had been rebrigaded, in order to give each 
brigade one-half of the divisional front constantly, in- 
stead of all of it on alternate days, as had been the orig- 
inal plan. Col. Mitchell learned that his regiment 
was on the other side of the sector, in Col. Nuttman's 
brigade. He went ahead with his search. A stiff regu- 
lar army colonel plodding along over unknown territory 
through a black night and a heavy rain, looking for his 
regiment which he has never seen and whose location 
he does not know is a situation which has many attractive 
possibilities. 

He finally found two companies, and was told that the 



194 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

rest of the regiment was in line on the left near Baulny. 
Mitchell went to Baulny, reported to Col. Nuttman, told 
him he had found parts of A and C companies of his 
regiment, and asked where the rest of his regiment 
was. Nuttman said the troops were badly mixed. He 
himself had been out to the front that afternoon, he said, 
and had found 250 men of the 139th, and had posted 
them as outposts in front of the 137th Kegiment. 

Mitchell also learned that Ristine, commanding the 
139th, had not been seen for 24 hours and was supposed 
to be dead, that the officer casualties in the regiment were 
very heavy, but no one at brigade headquarters seemed 
to know anything about the headquarters of the regi- 
ment. 

Mitchell fared forth again, and proceeded toward the 
front. It was very dark and raining hard, and the run- 
ners who were guiding him were not always sure of the 
way. He found two dressing stations, with many 
wounded men in and about them, waiting in the rain 
their turns with the doctors or waiting for some way to 
be taken to the rear. Finally he reached the front line 
of the 137th, and was taken to Col. Hamilton. The com- 
mander of the 137th was sure that there was none of the 
139th in front of him, where Col. Nuttman thought he 
had posted them. 

Considering the rain and darkness. Col. Mitchell was 
convinced that there was little chance of finding his com- 
mand in the night, so he returned to Baulny. The scout 
officer of the 139th and a few scouts he had found, ac- 
companied him. 

He was awakened at 3 a.m. by an order from the com- 
mander of the Sixty-ninth Brigade to attack at 5:30 a.m. 
He went to Col. Nuttman and explained that he could not 



NIGHT IN MONTREBEAU WOOD 195 

obey that order because he could not find his regiment. 
Col. Nuttman told him to take what he had and form a 
reserve for the 137th. Mitchell instructed Capt. W. C. 
Williamson to form what troops he could get for this pur- 
pose. 

The feeling at division headquarters was that the field 
was not going well. The iron resistance of the reinforced 
enemy, fighting on ground he knew well, and ground 
which he must hold at all cost, seemed firm enough to halt 
the division, as the battle was vieAved from headquarters. 
The morale of a division is nearly always higher in the 
front lines than back at headquarters. The spirit of 
fighting pervades the front, the actual conflict is in the 
blood of the men, and their sergeants and lieutenants are 
convinced that they can whip the Boche, and the feeling 
finds its way to the men and upholds them. 

To headquarters come most depressing reports from 
men drifting back, the slightly wounded, the slightly 
gassed and the physically exhausted. Each one who hap- 
pens to pass through headquarters is eagerly questioned, 
and the returning man is very prone to believe that his 
personal experience and emotions are those of his whole 
company or regiment. He believes that the ills he has 
suffered, mental and physical, are common to the whole 
command. 

Bad as conditions were on the front of the 35th Divi- 
sion, they were not as bad as headquarters seemed to 
think, for the weakness and exhaustion from which the 
men suffered had not yet affected their minds and hearts. 
They were very tired in body, but that intangible part 
called ** morale," which is the soul of the troops as a 
whole, the soldier spirit and the will to victory, was 



196 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

stanch and firm, despite all the grim fighting. To para- 
phrase, ''their heads were bloody but unbowed." 

Col. Hawkins, the efficient and conscientious Chief of 
Staff, felt that he could do more good at the front than 
at headquarters. Liaison was so poor that the functions of 
headquarters seemed to him of much less importance. 
It was a matter of fighting now. Division headquarters 
did not know what officers were out and what were in, 
it so seldom heard from any of them. All reports said 
that the 137th was badly tangled, and some reports had 
it that Col. Hamilton was wounded, or gassed, or ex- 
hausted. 

Col. Jens Bugge came from Corps Headquarters to re- 
lieve Hawkins as Chief of Staff, and Hawkins went for- 
ward. He found that Col. Hamilton had brought some 
sort of reorganization out of the remains of his regiment, 
that he had a line in the forward edge of Montrebeau 
Wood, and that he was confident he could hold it. Haw- 
kins started back to rejoin the Brigade Commander, Col. 
Nuttman, but got lost in the darkness and failed to find 
him again that night. 

The division had been rebrigaded and Col. Walker now 
had command of the right half of the divisional front, 
with the 138th and the 140th. Col. Nuttman with the 
137th and the 139th, commanded the left half. 

The Infantry of the 35th Division on the morn- 
ing of September 26 was brigaded in the manner shown 
in the first diagram. That was the arrangement used 
with such success in the St. Mihiel operation, but it will 
be remembered that the enemy offered little opposition 
there. 

After Col. Ristine had effected his passage of lines, 



NIGHT IN MONTREBEAU WOOD 



197 



the formation on the morning of September 27 was as 
shown in the second diagram. 

This increased the difficulty of communication, but it 
did not bring about the confusion the diagram might in- 
dicate at first glance. It was immediately seen that the 
arrangement under which the division had started out 
was not the best one, and two days later the plan was 



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changed by rebrigading the division and putting the 
two regiments on the right, that is, the 138th and the 
140th, in one brigade, and the other two regiments, which 
were on the left, in the other brigade. Thus the 138th 
changed brigades in the middle of the battle, but the 
change was without much effect, either good or bad. Af- 
ter the change on Sept. 28 the arrangement was as shown 
in the third diagram. 



CHAPTER XXIX 



PERMISSION TO RELIEVE GENERAL BERRY 

The third day's fighting had brought to the 35th Division 
a profit of about two kilometers gained. The cost had be- 
come heavier for each forward step, and only the welfare 
of the whole field justified the expense. The line ran 
straight westward from the right limit of the sector to 
the Montrebeau Wood, went through the front of the wood, 
and coming out of it, dipped sharply to the south, where it 
turned to present a front to the enemy across the River 
Aire in the sector of the 28th Division, which was being 
held to a much slower rate of advance than the Thirty-fifth. 

The Thirty-fifth had gained in the day nearly, but not 
quite, as much ground as it had on the second day. The 
first day 's advance had been more than both the second and 
third days' advances, but the first day had had magnificent 
artillery support. 

The casualties continued heavy but not out of propor- 
tion to the nature of the fighting, the dogged resistance, 
and the masses of machine guns and cannon which the 
enemy had brought to hold his line. 

The Americans fought with consistent bravery, but not 
with the superlative boldness which invites disaster. They 
had grown wary, adroit and capable, and they had ad- 
vanced. 

The men were hungry and very tired. The cold rain 
which kept up all night soaked them, of course, as there 
was no cover, but it was hardest on the wounded. The 
doctors worked without ceasing, and the stretcher bearers 

198 



PERMISSION TO RELIEVE GEN. BERRY 199 

toiled until they dropped in their tracks, but many 
wounded men lay all night in the rain. I saw that night 
a stretcher bearer who had wires looped around his wrists 
and fastened around the stretcher handles, to help his tired 
hands. Both wrists were bleeding. 

During the day of the 28th the artillery was still trying 
to get into position to give more assistance to the infantry, 
and to counteract, as far as it could, the tremendous! ef- 
fectiveness of the German artillery. 

At 8 a. m., Gen Berry had ordered the 128th Field Ar- 
tillery to move its Second Battalion into position at Very, 
and the First Battalion to Charpentry. The Second Bat- 
talion was in position soon after 11 in the morning, and 
the First was firing from its new place at 4 p.m. 

In all the day of the 28th the artillery brigade fired 
only 3200 shells. 

At 1:30 on the morning of Sept 29, Ristine's message 
from the 28th division brigade headquarters reached Gen. 
Traub. It read as follows : 

29 September, 1918, 1 :30 a.m. 

Telephoned from Road Runner 3. 

To: Oklahoma 3, (Letter from Colonel Ristine.) 

Scouting from Boche lines to here, south of Apre- 
mont. Been as far north as CO. 6-79.3. Boche in re- 
treat everywhere, leaving nothing behind but ma- 
chine guns, 77s and other artillery. Last night 3 large 
dumps burned at Fleville. Stayed today in Boche 
lines at 01.5-77.3, on road north of river. Boche has 
many machine guns and 77s. He uses 77s in front 
lines. At 7 o'clock he had three 77s at .01.5-77.3, be- 
tween main road and river. Had one 77 at 01.1-77.2. 
His machine guns are in field in most cases. Has em- 
placements in hedge corners, but does not use them 
often. Our artillery today was not very effective. 
Machine guns fire from flank in most all cases and in- 



200 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

fantry should approach guns from the front. I am 
weak, tired and hungry, soaked to the skin, otherwise 
all right. More particulars later. Will join you to- 
morrow. 

Gen. Traub forwarded it to Gen. Berry with the follow- 
ing endorsement: 

Headquarters 35th Division, American Expeditionary 
Forces, 29th September, 1918. 

The Commanding General desires to call your espe- 
cial attention to the above letter which shows the dis- 
position of enemy 77s and machine guns. It will be 
noted that his method must be met with similar 
methods, and it is directed imperatively, that you get 
as many 75s as you can furnish with ammunition for- 
ward to support the Infantry. Colonel Eistine has 
been in the Boche line near territory where our artil- 
lery fire fell, and claims it was not effective. The Com- 
manding General directs that you take the necessary 
steps to make your fire more effective and that the 
closer it is to the infantry the more effective it will be. 

It seems rather too much to have expected Gen. Berry 
to allow himself to be influenced by the report of a mere 
National Guard officer. He replied to Gen. Traub with 
the following message : 

Headquarters 60th Field Artillery Brigade, 29 Sep- 
tember, 1918, 3 :30 a.m. 
Returned : 

1. Direct hits on one hostile battery were observed, 
caisson was seen to blow up. It is believed that in all 
cases the artillery fire was as accurate as could be ex- 
pected. Constant effort is made to improve the accu- 
racy of the artillery and assist the infantry. The 
present condition of Col. Ristine's command makes 
me unwilling to accept him as a military critic. 

2. The orders of the Division commander will be 
carefully studied by me and thoroughly complied with. 



PERMISSION TO RELIEVE GEN. BERRY 201 

Following this exchange of courtesies, it would appear 
that Gen. Traub made certain representations to his next 
higher commander, who was General Liggett, command- 
ing the corps in which the 35th Division was fighting. 

In the early morning messages had passed indicating 
that the Artillery was not cooperating with the air planes. 
The planes would go forward and observe the front line 
and then fly back and tell the artillery where our line was, 
so that the artillery would be certain to plant its shells 
beyond our own troops. 

The air observers reported to division headquarters that 
they could not get answers from the artillery. 

Then came messages saying that our shells were falling 
on our own men. One of these was : 

''Artillery on left flank falling short. Traub." 

Another, addressed to Gen. Traub, at 7 :25 that morning, 
was : * * Our own artillery is hitting our own men at % mile 
north of Chaudron Farm.'' 

Another, later in the day, apparently from a brigade 
headquarters, said: 

''Our artillery fire falling on our troops in Montrebeau 
Wood. Sent similar message earlier.'' 

Finally the following messages were received by Gen. 
Traub from the corps headquarters. "Oklahoma" was 
code for 35th Division headquarters, and "Buster" was 
code for the Corps. 

From Buster 1 to Okla. 1, at 8 :40 a.m. 29 Sept. 

If your artillery Brigade Commander is not giving 
full support and is not to you a satisfactory and loyal 
commander you are authorized to relieve him. 

From Buster 3 to Okla. 3 

The Corps Commander wants to know if our artil- 
lery is all up and supporting the infantry. If not, 
why not? 



CHAPTER XXX 



EIEGER CHARGES INTO EXERMONT 

It was a dreary Sunday morning which. Sept. 29 pre- 
sented to the soldiers of the 35th Division. The 
chilled and rain-soaked men from Missouri and Kansas 
looked from the line which ran to the right and left from 
the edge of Montrebeau Wood, upon a wet, gloomy, un- 
tended field, and they cursed the Germans and all their 
works. 

They had thought the two preceding days had been of 
some value because those days must have displayed the 
worst the enemy could do in cannonading and machine 
gun fire. Now they saw they were wrong. The sky snarled 
with passing shells from batteries which must have been 
much increased during the night. The ground over which 
the men were to advance, and the points they were to take, 
hissed with the constant whirr of machine guns. 

The line where the divisional front had dug in the night 
before had been shelled all night long, and there were 
many dead men between the Aire River and Exorieux 
farm. The enemy had control of the air. 

The attack was to be at 5 :30 a. m. according to the orders 
which sifted down from corps headquarters. It was worded 
thus: 

28 September, 1918 

From Buster 3 

To Oklahoma 3, Received 10:31 p.m. 

Plans for tomorrow exactly same as for today, ex- 
cept no definite objective. Division will push forward 

202 



RIEGER CHARGES INTO EXERMONT 203 

at 5 :30 a.m. without regard to Division on right or left. 
Maintain liaison with detachments between flanks. 

Signed : Liggett, by Craig. 

I have heard the plan and the order criticized by officers 
who contended that the division should never have been 
sent forward on that day, since it was already so far in 
advance of the division on its left that the Thirty-fifth 
left flank had been for two days exposed to an enfilading 
fire. A line had to be held fronting the river, from a point 
about even with Apremont to whatever point to the north- 
ward the division advanced. These critics contend that the 
divisions on either side should have done the advancing, and 
that the Thirty-fifth should have not been compelled to 
push a salient into the German line on its own front. 

Divisions on both sides of the Thirty-fifth were to at- 
tack at the same hour on the morning of the 29th, and 
there was assurance, corps headquarters said, that the 
flanks of the Thirty-fifth would be protected. 

In the brigade handled by Col. Nuttman, there was dif- 
ficulty in transmitting the orders for the attack which 
reached him from the division. The rain and darkness, 
the shortage of runners and the exhaustion of those who 
were left, the constant shelling of the ground over which 
the runners must pass, all made it a question of grave 
doubt whether the orders were delivered. But they were. 

Nuttman was able to find but one battalion of the 139th, 
and he did not know how much there was of the 137th, 
but he knew that it was in Montrebeau Wood. 

Gen. Traub went forward to look things over and re- 
ported to his Chief of Staff: 

From C. G. at Baulny, Sept. 29", 6 :25 a.m. to C. of S. 

I find that Brigade commanders know little about 
their brigades and the actual location of the units of 
their regiments. Am in command of reserves. We 



204 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

will do our level best. Are being heavily shelled. 
Recommend reinforcements be sent at once to back up 
this Division. It has lost its punch account of so many 
officer casualties resulting in disorganization of units 
which the remaining officers appear unable to have re- 
assembled. Gas, shrapnel and high explosives being 
received from hill across river and our left meeting 
with machine gun resistance. The line is out between 
Charpentry and Cheppy but party out to repair it. 
Col. Walker's P. C. at Chaudron Farm and being 
heavily shelled. Col. Nuttman has gone forward to 
Montrebeau Woods to be in closer touch with his com- 
mand. It is now 6 :42 and we have received no reports 

P. S. You can reach me at phone central at Baulny. 

The British say that the battle of Waterloo was won 
on the cricket lawns of Eton and Harrow. The 35th Di- 
vision had lost its punch on the dancing floors of West 
Point, in the Efficiency Board rooms at Camp Doniphan, 
and in the United States Army system which replaces 
National Guard officers, however competent, with Regu- 
lar Army officers, however incompetent. 

Col. Walker, commanding the other brigade, received 
the order from division headquarters at 45 minutes past 
midnight on the morning of the attack. He sent his 
brigade orders, which required some work and tran- 
scription, to the regiments at 2:55 a.m. He ordered the 
138th, which was lying behind the 140th, to pass through 
the 140th 's lines, and lead the attack on the right half 
of the sector, and the 140th, to follow behind and support 
the 138th. Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, commanding the 
138th, said that he did not receive his orders until 7 a.m. 
Where the delay was I do not know. Col. Delaplane re- 
ceived his orders at 5 :25 to attack five minutes later. 

Exermont, a village of no particular importance or 



RIEGER CHARGES INTO EXERMONT 205 

value even in its palmy days, was a well shelled place 
that morning. Tolerably well placed for defense, and 
on that rainy dawn, it was ringed three-quarters of the 
way round with cannon and machine guns. Through the 
fourth quarter the 35th Division had to attack. 

The first to make the brave attempt was Maj. Kalloch 
with his thin line. In the 40 minutes he had to prepare, 
he had got together about 125 men, mostly of the 137th 
regiment. He had two automatic riflemen with Chauchat 
rifles, but they were very short of ammunition, having 
but a few clips apiece. He formed a skirmish line, with 
100 men in the front line, and a patrol of six men on 
each flank. The rest of the men were in the rear in re- 
serve, to fill the places of casualties. So scant was his 
force that he had to put ten paces between each two 
men to cover the brigade front. He gave Lieut. Allen 
command of the right half of the line, and Lieut. Hodg- 
son the left. 

The line was ready, kneeling at the edge of the wood 
at 5:30, waiting for the barrage, but the barrage did not 
come. The only artillerying was done by the enemy. 

At 5:34 he started without a barrage, and had advanced 
300 yards when a stiff machine gun nest opened just 
in front and killed a few of his men. The gunners doubt- 
less had crept to the position in the night. In a 10-min- 
ute fight, the nest was destroyed. Three hundred meters 
further on, more machine guns were found and destroyed, 
after another fight and more losses. When the second nest 
had been cleaned, it was observed that many more machine 
guns were filtering in on both flanks of the advancing 
skirmish line, but it went ahead against very heavy artil- 
lery and machine gun fire, and finally reached the ravine 
running west from Exermont. 



206 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

There was no sign anywhere of the supporting wave 
Col. Hamilton was to bring out, so Kalloch sent two run- 
ners, one a few minutes behind the other, to say that 
he could go no farther without support. His losses had 
been very heavy. 

At 6 :15, Kalloch saw the support line of about 100 men 
come out of the Montrebeau Wood and begin advancing 
toward him. He saw them start up the rise, then he turned 
and looked toward the front for a time. When he looked 
back again the line had disappeared. No further supports 
appeared, and Kalloch held on until 8 o'clock. By that 
time, enemy machine guns had become more numerous and 
deadly, and he retired with what was left of his men. He 
had to leave his dead and wounded on the field, and when 
he reached the edge of the wood again his command was 
practically dissipated. It simply had melted under ma- 
chine gun fire. 

While Kalloch was forward with his forlorn hope Maj. 
O'Connor, who had become exhausted the night before, re- 
turned to the front. He found the 1st battalion staff 
functioning as 137th regimental staff, and learned that Col. 
Hamilton was on duty. After a brief search, he found Col. 
Hamilton a hundred yards in front of the woods, in the 
open field, sitting alone in an old artillery emplacement. 
O'Connor learned that Kalloch had joined and was at that 
moment leading a wave against Exermont. Hamilton told 
O'Connor to organize and lead forward a supporting line. 

O'Connor hurriedly got together what men he could of 
the 137th, and marshaled them to the front of the woods 
and out into the open. It was now full daylight, and there 
was terrible fire of machine guns from the front and both 
flanks. From the front and left flank, artillery fired on 
them with flat trajectory. 



RIEGER CHARGES INTO EXERMONT 207 

The men were willing and brave, but much disorganized, 
largely, I suspect, through their great physical weariness. 
The officers were unable to maneuver them. When they 
reached the top of the rise and got the full force of the fire, 
they seemed just to fade back into the woods. Without 
panic, but beyond the power of their officers to stop them, 
they retreated into the woods. That was the line which 
Kalloch saw once and saw no more. 

While Kalloch was moving up, and while 'Connor was 
seeking his Colonel in Montrebeau Wood, every infantry 
officer of the division who was still effective was preparing 
his command for the attack on Exermont. Among others 
was Maj. Rieger, grooming his battalion of the 139th for 
the grim advance. To the left and rear of Montrebeau 
Wood, where he had made a line fronting the Argonne For- 
est, he marshaled them in the rain and took them around 
behind the wood with the intention of marching through it, 
hoping to pick up some more men. It was a ghastly dawn, 
and doubtless Maj. Rieger made a prayer to Jehovah of 
The Thunders as he moved his devoted band eastward 
through the cannonade. For Maj. Rieger is a religious 
man and a deacon in the Baptist church back home in 
Kirksville, Mo. It was he who formed the Sunday school 
class of 300 members at Camp Doniphan. His employment 
on Sept. 29 was far from being the way in which he usually 
spent Sunday morning. 

His battalion was well battered, but game. It had been 
at the mopping up of Vauquois Hill and the Bois de Ros- 
signol, it had spent the first night before Charpentry, the 
second night in Montrebeau Wood, the third night in the 
open facing the Argonne Forest, and now it was going to 
essay the dread assault of Exermont. 
As Maj. Rieger was starting into the wood, he met Col. 



208 TROM VAUQUOIS HUjL TO EXEEMONT 

Nuttman, who pointed eastward and told him to go on and 
attack. Eieger explained that his way lay through the 
wood, that he was going to take its protection as far as he 
could and pick up any available men to help out his scanty 
force. 

Nuttman said Exermont was in the direction in which 
he was pointing, eastward. Rieger said he was sure the 
brigade commander was wrong, and that unless he had posi- 
tive orders otherwise, he would attack through the wood. 

''I order you to move that way around the wood and at- 
tack Exermont," Col. Nuttman said. ''You can see the 
town very soon." 

Rieger obeyed and moved ahead. He had to take his 
battalion between Montrebeau Wood and the strip of woods 
to the east, and attack through the open. 

His orders had been for 5 :30 a.m., with the regiments 
on the right to come up and attack on his right. They had 
not come and he had delayed an hour waiting for them. 
He picked up a party of the 140th in the meantime. There 
was good daylight when he reached the open field before, 
and to the right of Montrebeau Wood. 

The full fury of the enemy fire reached them when they 
went over the rise, like the full current of a poisonous wind. 
They pressed ahead. Never before had these men faced 
such a concentration of artillery and machine gun fire, and 
it took its toll. German machine gunners, brought with all 
speed from reserve and from points on the French and 
British fronts, hundreds of kilometers away, were lying 
ahead grinding out their deadly hail. The opposing front 
was thick with them, behind defenses, in foxholes, or lying 
out in the grass. 

Rieger 's men, benumbed with the cold rain, the lack of 
warm food and the days of ceaseless work, did a peculiar 



RIEGER CHARGES INTO EXERMONT 209 

thing, and the officer who saw and told me of it said it 
swept him with a great gust of sorrow and pity; sorrow 
that such things had to be and pity for the brave men going 
to their deaths. 

In the stunning, dumbing gust of war the men sensed 
with their physical bodies rather than their minds, that 
death was pouring past them in a flood. As if they were 
walking forward through a driving hailstorm they turned 
their faces to leeward and, leaning forward against the 
blast, pushed ahead with the point of shoulder offered to 
the gale. 

Across the open they went. The barrage had failed to 
come, and if our guns were helping the attack, there was 
no assistance appreciable to the infantry. 

Across the little valley and the creek they went, through 
a fiendish fire, and without barrage or artillery support, 
they charged and took the town of Exermont. This was the 
Rieger whom Gen. Berry had declared was "absolutely 
hopeless. ' ' 

The enemy machine gunners were killed at their guns, 
and the grim column moved on through the town out to 
the heights beyond. There they dug in on a line ex- 
tending to the northeast and lay down to hold and wait 
for supports. An incident of this attack is told in the 
first chapter of this book. 



CHAPTER XXXI 



THE 140TH ADVANCES 

In the meantime, on the right of our line of the night 
before were the 140th and the 138th Regiments. They 
also were to attack at 5:30, but the orders reached them 
late. What was left of the 140th was in position at 
6 a.m., waiting for the 138th to pass through it and lead 
the attack, as the orders provided, but the 138th did not 
come forward. 

Soon after 6 a.m. Col. Delaplane received orders from 
Col. Nuttman, commanding the other brigade, and Col. 
Hawkins, to proceed with the 140th and lead the attack. 
Delaplane asked his own brigade commander. Col. Wal- 
ker, if he should advance or Avait for the 138th, as his 
former orders read. Walker said for him to lead the 
attack and he would have the 138th follow, and at the 
same time, before his deployment was complete, Nutt- 
man or Hawkins ordered him to move without further 
preparation. This caused the regiment to move with less 
order and formation than it would have had otherwise, 
and resulted later in Col. Walker gaining the erroneous 
impression that the whole regiment had stopped. 

The same terrific machine gun fire from every availa- 
ble position caught Delaplane 's men and artillery from 
three sides pounded him, but adroitly taking advantage 
of the terrain and handling his very brave men with ad- 
dress, he took them into Exermont despite heavy losses. 
Lieut. "Duke" Sheahan, commanding the 140th Scouts, 
led the way into the town. Delaplane had with him parts 

210 



THE 140th advances 211 

of his second and third battalions, and with these he 
manned the town and connected with Rieger's line to the 
east. 

Captain Milligan was in charge of the advance, and 
he took and held the most advanced part of the line 
gained by the 140th. 

The second wave of the 140th was stopped within 300 
yards, and it was ordered back to its original line to 
reform. Col. Walker thought that this was the entire 
regiment. He did not know that a part of his command 
had won through to Exermont. He sent this report: 

29 September, 9:40 a.m. 

From CO at CHAUDRON FARM, Sept. 29, 9 :35 a.m. 

To C. 0. 35th Div. 

140th Infantry began advancing at 6 :25 a.m. 138th 
Infantry evidently did not receive orders because I 
could not find them. Two companies of 139th Infantry 
are mixed in with the 140th Infantry. No tanks ap- 
peared. Advance was stopped within I/2 kilometers of 
starting by artillery and machine gun fire. Have or- 
dered another attack to begin 8 :15 a.m. Elements of 
91st Division on our right but they did not advance at 
5 :30 and are not advancing now. Apparently they have 
no orders to advance. No evidence of advance on our 
immediate left of any column. 138th Infantry just 
now appeared and will put 2 battalions in the attack 
which I have ordered. Holding 3rd battalion in re- 

^^^^®- Signed: Colonel Walker. 

This attack faced conditions as desperate as any of 
the preceding ones. Better light helped the German 
gunners and the tired troops were mown down. At 10:30 
a.m., it looked to Col. Walker that this attack also had 
failed. Enemy machine guns were filtering far down 
on the flank, so he ordered the troops back to their old 
positions. 



212 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

But many of these troops also had gone ahead. At 
6 a.m. Lieut. Leahy, commanding the Second Battalion, 
received orders from Col. Parker to advance to the woods 
north of Chaudron Farm (these are the woods to the 
northeast of Montrebeau Wood) and there to wait for 
the third battalion which would take position on his 
right. It was Parker's plan to attack out of these 
woods. 

As Leahy moved forward, Col. Nuttman, commanding 
the other brigade, ordered him to move through Montre- 
beau Wood, which was on his left. Leahy explained that 
he was acting under orders from his regimental com- 
mander, and on a plan which involved the regimental at- 
tack. Nuttman made his own orders positive and pointed 
the way. Leahy took his battalion forward through Mon- 
trebeau Wood, as ordered. He had no opposition in the 
wood, but as he passed out of it he caught the full sweep 
of the machine guns lying in the territory to the west of 
Exermont. 

His losses were extremely heavy, but he pressed for- 
ward to the west of Exermont, passing over the ground 
Kalloch had been driven from with almost total loss, and 
crossed the ravine of Exermont. His men drove the 
enemy before them or destroyed them when they stood 
and fought. They stubbornly plunged ahead, even after 
they came under the fire on their right flank from Hill 
240. From the time they left Montrebeau wood, Leahy 
had no protection on his left flank. His runners did 
magnificent work in that destructive advance. Among 
them were Corp. Brady, Supply Sergt. John Muese and 
Mechanic William Hand, who had served him so well in 
the big raid in the Vosges. 

Leahy gained a point well to the north of Exermont, 



THE 140th advances 213 

but westward, almost on a line between Exermont and 
Fleville. There, about noon, Leahy was wounded and 
put out of action. His only remaining runner took 
back the battalion commander, leading him, half carrying 
him, and later trundling him on a wheelbarrow. 

Leahy turned the command over to Lieut. John E. Mitch- 
ell, who was wounded 10 minutes later. 

The battalion fell back slowly, fighting steadily, but 
there were not enough men left to fight and care for the 
wounded also. Most of the wounded and all the dead 
were left on the field. 

In the meantime, Lieut. Brightfield took the First Bat- 
talion of the 138th forward to the woods Leahy had 
aimed for until deflected, there to await the regimental 
organization for the attack. He came under heavy shell 
and machine gun fire, and dug in to hold the position 
until the other battalions came up. 

The third battalion under command of Capt. Bottger 
was to attack on the right of the three battalions of the 
138th. This battalion had been from the first charged 
with the duty of keeping in combat liaison with the di- 
vision on our right. The battalion caught a very heavy 
fire as it advanced, but passed through the strip of woods, 
and when a short distance in front of them, slowed up 
and stopped. Then the men began to filter back into the 
woods. 

Sergt. Ross M. Koen was commanding L Company in 
which command he had succeeded another sergeant, Rob- 
inson, who had been gassed the night before. Koen en- 
deavored to hold his men out in front, but he could keep 
but six of them. With these he dug in and lay an hour 
firing with rifles against the plentiful machine gun nests 
opposing like a lone outpost attacking an entrenched 



214 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

army. Then he fell back into the woods. There he could 
find none of his company or battalion, so he marshalled 
his six men again, advanced again into the fire-swept 
open and dug in on the crest of the ridge. 

When Major Constable was ordered to move his post 
back he replied: 

29 Sept. 9 a.m. 

From Constable at P.C., 3.20 a.m. 

To Hay 

All my companies are in line firing, one with 140th 
one with 139th two with 137th. Brigade C. 0. di- 
rected me to remain here last night as my P. C. was es- 
tablished, and all my companies were familiar with 
its location. Have an officer forward to Brigade C. 0. 
at this time to find out what he desires. With one com- 
pany of my battalion in my own brigade sector and the 
other three companies in the other brigade sector, it 
it a serious question as to where I can best direct my 
battalion. You can surely see my position. Am en- 
deavoring in every way to use my best judgment. 
Will wait until I hear from Brigade C. O. 

If I move back of 70th Brigade will lose contact 
with my three companies on the left. 

Later he sent this message : 

29 September, 10:45 a.m. 

From Constable at P.C., 10 :10 a.m. 

Message from Nesbitt with 137th Inf. says he has 
only three squads left. All other knocked out. Would 
like to have relief, but I have no companies left. Com- 
pany B reports very heavy casualties with 140th Inf. 
Can you do anything for us ? All my companies are in. 

Signed : Constable. 

The medical men also were near the end of their rows : 



THE 140th advances 215 

29 September, 10:40 a.m. 
D.S. Charpentry, 9 a.m. 

Have 100 bearers of mule Amb. and 2 wagons and 
1 Ford out collecting in wounded, and there seems to 
be no end to them. There must be 500 yet to come. 
They are in all directions from me. Collecting is diffi- 
cult as snipers and machine gunners are sweeping the 
field, also aeroplanes. Our artillery fire is feeble. 

Signed : Gist. 

Send up blankets and litters. I am covering entire 
field or sector in front of me. 



CHAPTER XXXII 



GENERAL TRAUB ASKS TO BE WITHDRAWN 

Capt. Bottger, commanding the 3rd battalion of the 
138th, had got into the heavy fire, as he advanced, and 
had been knocked over by the concussion of a shell. He 
got into a shell hole to avoid the machine gun fire, and 
with two privates, sick and slightly gassed, lay there 
many hours, because the infiltration of enemy machine 
gunners cut him off from his command. He finally es- 
caped and made his way into the sector of the Ninety- 
first Division. 

Unable to find his battalion commander, Capt. Thomp- 
son of M Company took command of the battalion. He 
put Second Lieut. Harry B. Steele in command of I 
Company; Sergt. Richter, K Company; Sergt Koen, L 
Company, and Second Lieut. Hickam, M Company. Then 
he prepared for a new advance. As he w^as forming, a 
runner brought a verbal message from Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel Parker instructing him to organize a position, but the 
position assigned could not be understood, being too in- 
definite. Thereupon he started out to find the colonel. 

He arrived at the bare place by the roadside, which 
was regimental headquarters, only to learn that Col. 
Parker had been killed a few minutes before, and that 
the regimental adjutant, Capt. Clarence Schnelle, had been 
badly wounded. Col. Parker was a regular army officer 
who had orders to return to the states before the be- 
ginning of the battle, but he had stayed to help, if he 
could, the regiment to which he was greatly attached* 

216 



GEN. TRAUB RECOMMENDS WITHDRAWAL 217 

Schnelle was hit in the groin by a splinter of shell, prob- 
ably from the same shell which killed his colonel. He 
walked to brigade headquarters, and after reporting on 
conditions, and that the colonel had been killed, said that 
he had a wound himself, but he did not know how bad 
it was. He was hurried to a dressing station, then back 
to the triage and on to the rear, but too late. He died 
soon afterward. 

Since Maj. Comfort was detached, Capt. Thompson, who 
was 25 years old, was at that time, I presume, the rank- 
ing officer of the regiment. He assumed that he was, as 
he could not find a superior, and hurried back to the 
firing line. Before he had reached his battalion, he saw 
troops retiring all along the line, which greatly astonished 
him, and asking an officer, was informed that they had 
been ordered to fall back to their original positions. 

About this time, probably 11 a.m., Gen. Traub came to 
the front to see for himself how conditions were. Mix- 
ture of elements and shortage of officers was everywhere 
apparent, and he ordered the troops withdrawn from 
Exermont and reorganized behind a line of resistance 
to be established by the division reserve. He reported to 
Corps Headquarters: 

Eecd. 11:15 a.m., 29th Sept. 1918. 

From North slope of Montrebeau Woods to Oklahoma 

3 for Buster 1, at 11 :00 a.m. 

Regret to report that this Division cannot advance 
beyond crest south of EXERMONT. It is thoroughly 
disorganized through loss of officers and many casual- 
ties, for which cannot give estimate, owing to inter- 
mingling of units. Recommend it be withdrawn for 
reorganization and be replaced promptly by other 
troops in order that the advance may be continued. 

Traub. 



218 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

Soon after Col. Walker had sent the Sixty-ninth Bri- 
gade forward the second time, he became convinced that 
the second attack, too, must fail, and he gave orders that 
the 138th and the 140th fall back to the positions they 
held the night before. He sent this message : 

29 September 12 M. 
From CO 70th Brigade, 11 :05 a.m. 
To Commanding General, 35th Division. 
The troops in front of the 70th Brigade P. C. at 
CHAUDRON Farm are falling back and we are going 
to try to take up a position just south of this point. 

Signed : Walker, 
At CHAUDRON Farm. 

Headquarters was growing a little twittery. There was 
a fear that a determined attack by the Germans might 
result in the capture of General Traub. This excited mes- 
sage went back : 

70th Brigade is falling back almost to BAULNY. 
The Germans are rushing them back. General orders 
are to get Divisions on our right and left to help im- 
mediately. General now leaving BAULNY. Germans 
are coming right on us. 

From officer at Baulny, telephoning 

by orders of General. 

The first feeling of relief comes with these messages: 
From CO 1st Bn., 110th Eng., at Foret Argonne 
03.3-77.64., 29 Sept., 9 :35 a.m. I am moving this bn. 
forward to draw one kilometer north of this post. 
B.C. Avill be at 030-780. 

E. M. Stayton. 

The engineers are now digging in just North of 
CHAUDRON Farm. We need help badly. Are falling 
back to ravine between CHARPENTRY and BAUL- 
NY. 

Signed : Walker. 



CHAPTER XXXIII 



THE 137TH'S FIRM, THIN LINE 



In Montrebeau Wood Col. Mitchell, who had joined up 
the night before under such disadvantageous circum- 
stances, was technically in command of the 139th. Af- 
ter Rieger and Delaplane had advanced in the woods, he 
organized a regimental headquarters, made Lieut. Marcus 
J. Morgan Adjutant, turned his scouts into runners and 
tried to establish liaison with elements on both sides. He 
did get in touch with the 138th on his right, but never 
could find anybody on the left. 

At about 9:30 a.m. he sent a message to Col. Nuttman 
saying that the situation was unchanged, and suggesting 
that the brigade commander come out and look things 
over for himself. 

Sometime after noon Lieut. Ridlon brought Mitchell 
a verbal message from the commander of the Seventieth 
Brigade, directing that the troops be withdrawn from 
Montrebeau Wood to a line near the Chaudron Farm. 
As his command was not in that brigade, he thought 
there must be some mistake, so he sent his regimental 
adjutant back to the Sixty-ninth Brigade headquarters to 
find out about it. The adjutant returned and informed 
the Colonel that the troops were to be withdrawn from 
Montrebeau Woods under cover of darkness, but that there 
were troops in Exermont, and that the troops in Montre- 
beau Wood were to cover their retirement. The Colonel 
sent Ridlon, with runners, as an officer patrol to give the 
order for retirement to the troops in Exermont. 

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220 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

At 2:40 Lieut. Heiny, the 139th intelligence officer, re- 
turned from the 138th and said the Seventieth Brigade had 
sent orders to the 138th that the right of the line should 
withdraw. Soon his messengers told him that the Ger- 
mans were moving forward on his right flank, apparently 
attempting an enveloping movement, so he sent a hurried 
request to the Seventieth Brigade to advance again and pro- 
tect his flank. I think that Ristine, who had made his way 
out of the German lines and had just rejoined the regiment 
took this message. Very soon afterward the Germans ap- 
peared on his right flank and Col. Mitchell ordered a with- 
drawal from Montrebeau Wood to keep from being cut off 
from the Chaudron Farm line. 

Maj. O'Connor, who had fallen back early in the day 
when he tried to advance to Kalloch's support, found it 
impossible to reform his men in the woods. They were so 
tired that they would fall into shell holes or foxholes and 
sleep despite their own endeavors. The rain made every 
movement difficult, and the constant shelling kept the men 
down. 

He formed a thin line on the left front of Montrebeau 
Wood to protect against a counter attack, as the enemy was 
filtering in on that side also. Two light attacks were re- 
pulsed and when the third, a more serious one, threatened, 
he called upon the artillery for a barrage and got an excel- 
lent one, which scattered the threatening German skirmish 
line. All day he kept up an action on that side of the wood, 
but the disorganization in the woods was too great to allow 
of his attacking, and late in the afternoon he received or- 
ders to withdraw to the Chaudron Farm line prepared by 
the reserve. 

In all of Montrebeau Wood that day, there had been a 
constant and searching fire from enemy guns, shrapnel, 



THE 137th 'S FIRM, THiN LINE 221 

high-explosive and gas shells were pouring in upon the men 
there, and the losses were heavy. 

The confusion of orders in the 138th meanwhile was as 
bad as the confusion of units. Sergt. Clyde E. Heath was 
commanding A Company. He advanced at 8 a.m. to the 
position held the day before, and at noon received orders to 
advance two kilometers to the northeast and entrench be- 
fore Exermont. While he was forming his sadly wasted 
company for this movement, an orderly gave him a message 
signed Walker, ordering the 138th and the 140th to drop 
back to the positions held the night before. 

He started to obey this order when Col. Ristine appeared 
and said he had orders countermanding all previous orders, 
and that the brigade was to move on Exermont as at first 
ordered. Thirty minutes later the Adjutant of the Sixty- 
ninth Brigade showed Heath orders from brigade head- 
quarters to hold the battalion and wait further orders. Up 
to 2 :30 p. m. the new orders had not been received and 
Heath, when he saw the 140th dropping back, took his com- 
pany back to a position 75 yards in front of the one they 
had held two nights before. 

Col. Walker's message ordering a withdrawal reached 
Col. Delaplane in Exermont before Col. Mitchell's officer 
patrol had got there, and Lieiit. Ridlon, who later became a 
casualty, found preparations for the retirement under way. 

The order to the troops in Exermont came none too soon. 
Rieger's line to the northeast was fighting continuously to 
hold the place it had dug in. Constant pressure was 
brought on him by infantry and machine gunners, in addi- 
tion to the shelling, but he was able to hold his line with- 
out exceptional losses. Not long after noon Rieger ob- 
served the enemy massing on his front in force which he 
knew he could not withstand without disaster. He hurried 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



MOniSlAlNVlUCA 



messages to brigade headquarters telling of conditions and 
asking for reinforcements. Instead, lie received the order 
to withdraw. 

He ordered the retirement and pulled his men back past 
Exermont, fighting steadily all the way. Enemy infantry 
and automatic riflemen were pressing in on him constantly, 
but he kept them back by a 
skillful rear guard action, 
and marched without much 
damage past the eastern end 
of Exermont from which 
town Col. Delaplane and his 
portion of the 140th had 
just departed. 

From there Rieger fell 
back, still fighting sullenly, 
and inflicting all possible 
damage on the enemy, and 
so took back to the line of 
the divisional reserve the 
remnant of his fine com- 
mand. By death, wounds 
or gas he had lost all his 
officers but one, and 65 per 
cent of his men, but what 
was left fought steadily all the way back. 

The 35th Division had made its last advance. With the 
exception of Capt. Harry Thompson and his battalion of 
the 138th, all infantry elements were at dusk falling back 
to the line of resistance prepared by the divisional reserve. 
Most of them already had reached it. The retirement was 
not as orderly as it might have been, but it was not in much 
worse confusion than the division had fougrht in for four 




lOORCUILUS 



THE DAY'S ADVANCES 



THE 137th 'S FIRM, THIN LINE 223 

days. Behind them, step for step, came the Germans, and 
the rear guards, like Rieger's and O'Connor's and Bright- 
field's, stubbornly kept them back, with their faces toward 
the gathering gloom in the north. 

Col. Mitchell, as he retired, posted Capt. D. H. Wilson 
with 75 men at a hedge between Chaudron Farm and the 
Montrebeau Wood to cover the evacuation of the wounded. 

Soon after noon of that day, Capt. Thompson, command- 
ing the Third Battalion of the 138th, after Bottger's mis- 
hap, had observed the beginning of the retirement, and he 
did not understand it. Orders were to advance, he had no 
contrary orders, and he thought the officer who told him of 
orders to retire was mixed up. Thompson became con- 
cerned, fearing the troops were retreating, and an unor- 
dered retreat of such a number of men would have meant 
disaster. To offset this as much as possible and to restore 
morale, he ordered his battalion forward with all speed. 
He passed through the line of the retiring 140th, working 
his way through a heavy barrage the Germans had laid to 
catch the retreating troops, and at 7 p. m. had intrenched 
a line before the right of Montrebeau Wood. 

He received a verbal order from Maj. Norman J. Com- 
fort, who had been sent from division headquarters to take 
command of the 138th, to withdraw to Charpentry for the 
reorganization of the regiment. Thompson was sure Com- 
fort did not understand the conditions, nor the situation 
the battalion was in, so he held his position out in front of 
the prepared line of resistance. His position might have 
been considered as the right of the prepared line, and 
Thompson considered that, as he had good contact with the 
enemy, it might be better than a position farther back of 
which he was not sure, so he held his place. 

On the night of September 29 Col. Turck, divisional sur- 



224 FROM VAUQtJOIS HILL TO KXERMONT 

geon, was making his rounds in Cheppy, when in a dug-out 
near the triage he found Col. Kumbold of the 128th Field 
Artillery. The Colonel had stayed in the hospital two 
days, could stand it no longer, and had dressed and pushed 
to the front in an endeavor to get to his old command. He 
never quite reached it because the doctors got him again, 
saw that his physical condition was such that he could not 
possibly stand the work, and sent him again to the rear. 
At this time his left leg was virtually paralyzed. He had 
fought in the war with Spain, in the Philippines, had 
served on the border and had been with the Militia Bureau 
in Washington, where he had formed the idea which re- 
sulted in the Rainbow division. He had been a National 
Guardsman for forty years, but he could not lead his old 
command in battle. His fifty-eight years held him. 



CHAPTER XXXIV 



THE ENGINEERS HOLD THE FRONT 

The line of resistance to which the infantry fell back 
from Exermont and Montrebeau Wood was prepared by the 
110th Regiment of Engineers which that day came into its 
own. 

It was under command of Lieut.-Col. Edward M. Stay- 
ton, a Missourian, and Capt. Edward P. Rankin, Jr., of El 
Paso was acting adjutant. The Colonel, Thomas C. Clarke, 
a plump and pleasant gentleman from New York, had been 
taken to Division headquarters as divisional engineer. 

At the opening of the offensive Sept. 26, besides the com- 
panies assigned to accompany the tanks and cut wire, the 
main force of engineers was to follow closely behind the 
infantry and prepare the roads for the horse-drawn ve- 
hicles, in order that supplies, rations and munitions might 
be brought up. Their place was, then, between the in- 
fantry fighting its way forward and the transport. Build- 
ing roads for heavier traffic, such as motor trucks, was not 
part of their work, according to the battle order. That was 
for corps or army engineers. 

The engineers had very clear ideas of many things in the 
game of war. One of these was a most lively appreciation 
of the value of liaison, of keeping the commander of the 
outfit in constant communication with every unit under 
his command. Because of this, the runners of the engineers 
were chosen from among the best and most reliable men of 
the regiment. Colonels and majors and captains worked 
them into exhaustion without scruple, put in new relays, 

225 



226 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

rested the tired men and again worked them into exhaus- 
tion, but they kept communication, and all through the en- 
gagement. Col. Stayton knew where his various outfits 
were and what they were doing as well as how it was going 
with the infantry ahead. 

The rear P. C, followed the advance as closely as its 
functions would permit. It was the ganglion to and from 
which the runner-nerves radiated. Lieutenant-Colonel 
Stayton occupied the forward P. C, handled things there 
and kept in touch with Col. Clarke. 

On the night of Sept. 28, the 110th Engineers became, 
by order, division reserve, and at noon Sept. 29 they were 
ordered to prepare a position for defense extending two 
kilometers across Chaudron Farm. This line, which was 
chosen by Lieutenant-Colonel Stayton, was about one kilo- 
meter north of Baulny, and ran along behind the Chaudron 
Farm road. Gen. Traub told Col. Clarke to take command 
of the divisional front. 

By the time the infantry had begun the general retire- 
ment, the line was prepared and the engineers, now become 
combatants, had equipped themselves with rifles and gre- 
nades, laid out ammunition, and were ready to hold the 
line themselves. 

Back across the road came the wornout infantry and up 
the slope of the hill. By the time each bunch reached the 
engineers* line, the confusion and disorganization was 
about as bad as it could be. In the absence of officers, or- 
ders and rumors of orders drifted about from man to man, 
and many of them thought the place they were to stop was 
much further back. In no case that I have heard of 
did the men fail to stop and take position when they had a 
recognizable order to do so. Most of the infantry was 
well back of the line at night. 



THE ENGINEERS HOLD THE FRONT 227 

Col. Stayton and his officers and non-commissioned of- 
ficers rounded up and faced about tired, leaderless groups, 
put them in place and encouraged them in every way possi- 
ble. Before the covering troops were out of Montrebeau 
Wood the newly-taken position on the slope of the hill was 
heavily shelled. 

Sergt. Sam W. Cobb of the engineers headquarters de- 
tachment, a St. Louisan, had a good idea just about this 
time. To inspirit the infantry and to show the high heart 
of his own outfit, he led his detachment forward. This ac- 
tion, which he did on his own initiative and without orders, 
had an excellent moral effect. It was Cobb who, at Cheppy, 
worked all night on a heavy machine gun the enemy had 
left, after disabling it, and who used it next day against 
airplanes. 

Thus, with two battalions of engineers on the left and a 
remnant of a battalion of infantry (Capt. Thompson's) on 
the right, and various pieces of other outfits strung along, 
the line was organized and held. The entire division front 
was in this way put in command of a Colonel of Engineers 
to hold, and it was held. It never went back a foot. Two 
machine gun companies took position with them and 
fought with accustomed bravery in repelling a counter at- 
tack and in harassing the enemy. 

When the engineers' line was beating off its counter-at- 
tack, Maj. Horace Rumsey of the Artillery was informed 
that their greatest need was for machine guns. He took 
the anti-aircraft machine gun from in front of a battery 
position and hurried it forward to the line, along with 
abundance of ammunition, and it was used against the Ger- 
man infantry. 

The work of the artillery never gets sufficient credit, it 
seems to me. Without the artillery, the infantry might 



228 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

have advanced, but it would have been destroyed utterly. 
The preliminary bombardment of the enemy's position on 
the night of Sept. 25 was as fine a piece of work in crafts- 
manship and effectiveness as the war has seen. In the fol- 
lowing days and nights, the artillery toiled ceaselessly to 
keep the guns going and to move them forward to positions 
of effectiveness. There is a high courage and stamina in 
the ceaseless toil through the mud, over shell holes and al- 
ways under fire, and no one is more keenly aware than the 
writer that he has failed to tell sufficiently well that part 
of the story. 

The tremendously important part the artillery plays of- 
ten is not a conspicuous one. The plant is established back 
of the line, the goods are delivered far up ahead. You do 
not see the artillery often, and only after an advance do 
you see what its work has been. 

The difficulty of moving the guns, with the chronic short- 
age of horses, was almost insurmountable, but our artillery 
pressed ahead as fast as it could, and when the infantry 
was relieved, the artillery stayed in position and helped the 
First Division. 

The total number of shells sent across by the Sixtieth 
Artillery Brigade in the Argonne was nearly 80,000. These 
are the exact figures : 

Size of shells. 

Date 75s. 155s. 

Sept. 26 37,033 4,486 

Sept. 27 1,090 

Sept. 28 2,624 581 

Sept. 29 10,418 2,313 

Oct. 30 12,227 1,115 

Oct. 1 4,189 249 

Oct. 2 348 1,380 



THE ENGINEERS HOLD THE FRONT 229 

On Sept. 28 Gren. Pershing came to the divisional head- 
quarters of the 35th Division. Gen. Traub explained the 
situation to the army commander, told him of the flanking 
artillery fire which his troops got out of Apremont and 
the Argonne Forest, and spoke of the order which forbade 
divisional artillery firing on points outside of its own divi- 
sional area. 

''But surely you do not obey that order?" Gen. Persh- 
ing asked. 

''It is the order," Gen. Traub replied, but after that our 
artillery pounded Apremont. 

In the night renewed attempts were made by all effec- 
tive officers to organize and reassemble the mixed units, 
but with little success. Men sound asleep in the rain on a 
dark night do not answer readily when the command is 
given. 

Food and ammunition were brought up during the night, 
and in spite of the continuous bombardment, the men slept. 

Thompson 's was the only outfit ahead of this line, except 
the camp in the lee of the hedge from which the wounded 
were being carried to the rear after they were collected 
from the field. 

The tired stretcher bearers were so weakened that it took 
six of them to carry a man, instead of four, and they plod- 
ded very slowly that night. 

The wounded were thick about there, lying on the ground 
or on the very scarce stretchers. Its quota of stretchers 
never was given to the division. The long days of fighting 
and cold and rain had benumbed the men, and softened 
their suffering. Among them lay old John Wingate, chief 
of scouts, dying of a wound in his stomach, and smoking a 
cigarette. 

They buried him near the hospital between Liieutenant- 



230 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

Colonel Dickey, Adjutant of Col. Walker's brigade, and 
Lieut. Ralph Oldham, the gallant lad who was hit by a 
shell on the Charpentry road, while taking ammunition to 
the front. 

The spirit of the wounded was always good, and there 
are incidents without end to show that gallant deeds did 
not end on the battle fields. 

Corp. D. C. Satterfield was wounded in the leg, refused 
to go to a dressing station, bound his wound himself and 
fought on until he was hit through the body. 

Capt. Wilson, in charge of the evacuation of wounded 
on the night of Sept. 29, had himself been wounded two 
days before. 

This fourth day also saw more brave work by the ambu- 
lance drivers, orderlies and stretcher bearers. While the 
infantry was advancing and paying for each rod gained by 
the wounded it left behind, out onto the field came the 
mule-drawn ambulances. Into the fire and across the open 
they went. The infantry advanced in dashes, lying down 
to fire at times, but the ambulances had to get their loads 
and hurry back without these pauses. 

Many men of the infantry regiments, the 110th Sanitary 
Train and the sanitary detachments of the machine gun 
battalions were cited in orders for gallantry shown that 
day. 

One of the showings of the fine spirit which animated 
the men of the division was witnessed by Capt. F. Hurwitt, 
who commanded Ambulance Company No. 137. This com- 
pany was stationed in Charpentry and because of the short- 
age of transport, on Sept. 29, Capt. Hurwitt had been sort- 
ing out the "slightly gassed" cases as they came into the 
station and was putting them in a large barn where they 
could lie down and rest, this bein^ the treatment most de- 



THE ENGINEERS HOLD THE FRONT 231 

sired. The more serious cases and the wounded were sent 
back. A Lieutenant- Colonel came to Capt. Hurwitt and 
asked if there were many slightly gassed cases in the sta- 
tion. 

''About 200, sir. They are in that barn/* the Captain 
replied. ': : ' 'l^U 

The Lieutenant-Colonel went into the barn and standing 
at one end, looked over the prostrate men and said : 

"Men, I want you to listen to me for a minute. I have 
just come from the first line and they are in a bad way up 
there. It looks very bad to me. Now you men have been 
gassed, I have been gassed, too. But they need us up there, 
and I am going back. And I want every one of you that 
thinks he can stand it, to go back with me. There are 
plenty of rifles and ammunition on this salvage dump. 
How many of you gassed men will take another try to help 
out those fellows up there on the line ? ' ' 

The men had already begun to get up from the floor, 
some were sitting, some kneeling and some standing, and 
when the Colonel went out of the bam every man followed 
him. Capt. Hurwitt stopped three of them and made them 
return to the bam. These were men to whom the exertion 
would mean certain death, but all the rest, every man of 
them, armed himself with the rifle of a wounded man, and 
went back northward and again into the fight. 



CHAPTER XXXV 



THE LAST DAY OF BATTLE 

When the 35th Division established itself on the line pre- 
pared by the engineers, and organized for defense, it had 
been stopped temporarily by the opposition, and in that re- 
gard its position was very similar to that of every other 
division on the American front. 

The first phase of the battle was over. The defense sys- 
tem against which the division had thrown itself was called 
the Kriemhilde-Stellung line, and the Germans had been 
able to join up along this line, which was a part, one layer, 
it might be called, of the Hindenburg line. 

In the area of the 35th Division, we knew only of the 
situation and condition in our own sector and on our own 
front. Back in corps and army headquarters, it was pos- 
sible to consider the front as a whole, with the condition 
of each of the nine divisions having its proper weight in the 
decision of the high command. 

Reports from the vital fronts, including the Thirty- 
fifth's, showed that prisoners recently captured proved 
that new, rested divisions of Germans were being put in 
against the Americans. 

Gen. Pershing had the option of sending his forces 
again to the attack, or of holding the ground already 
gained while he prepared for another general advance. 
This preparation would include getting up artillery, the 
replacing of those divisions which had suffered most and 
rehabilitating the others with replacements, hot food, 
equipment and clothing. 

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THE LAST DAY OF BATTLE 233 

The General decided that it would be unwise to send his 
tired divisions against the new German divisions, and 
adopted the latter course. 

The insertion in the German line of the new troops 
showed not only the enemy's determination to hold the 
line at whatever cost, but also how severely he was suffer- 
ing under the attack. Heavily as we suffered his losses 
were severe enough to compel him to bring fresh troops to 
our front, which showed that the American strokes were 
going home. The German was feeling the steel as keenly 
as was the attacker. 

When the Thirty-fifth lay on the engineers' line, three 
of the original divisions had been taken out of the line. 
First was the Eightieth, which had been pulled back for 
reorganizing and reforming, and then was sent in again. 
On Sept. 30, the Thirty-seventh, which was the second di- 
vision on our right, was relieved by the Thirty-second, and 
on the same date the Seventy-ninth, which was the third 
division on our right, w^as relieved by the 3rd Division. 

AVhile the situation was developing in headquarters of 
the army staff, the Thirty-fifth, among others, must hold 
the line. Our artillery was now up and in position. The 
engineers' line was manned, but nowhere quite as strongly 
as it might have been, and there was great comfort in the 
fact that scattered all along were our machine-gun battal- 
ions and companies, whose courage, wakefulness and 
strength never seemed to fail. 

The ''line of resistance" was organized on the line 
I'Esperance-Chaudron Farm— Hill 231. Outposts were 
placed and a second line of resistance was established a 
short distance behind the first, beginning on the ridge north 
of Baulny. The majority of the troops had sifted back of 
the line, and laj in foxholes, dugouts, ditches, trenches 



234 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

and hollows over all the territory almost back to Cheppy. 
They were anywhere that they could sleep and get a little 
rest. Officers were very few, and many non-coms com- 
manded platoons and companies. 

Col. Clarke took over for his forward headquarters a 
massive German pillbox which had been an enemy head- 
quarters. Stayton was in the front line. 

The greatest mass of troops, of course, was on the line. 
Officers there had spent the night of Sept. 29 preparing 
the position, disposing the troops for resistance and in the 
very earnest endeavor to get up rations and ammunition. 

Neither officers nor men knew whether the next day 
would see them put again to the attack, or withdrawn, but 
there were continual rumors, which would spread rapidly 
along the trench, that the division was to be relieved. 

A second line of resistance was formed soon after mid- 
night. Col. Mitchell gathered what men he could from the 
territory about him and took them to the line. Some ma- 
chine gunners came up also, and he had 300 or 400 men 
behind the engineers with eight or ten machine guns. 

The tangle of units was worse than ever. Col. Hamilton 
had gone to hospital, a casualty, and Maj. O'Connor, com- 
manding the remnants of the 137th Regiment, brought 
it back to the engineers' line. He inserted parties of his 
men in the line wherever they were needed, thus mixing his 
own outfit worse than ever, but strengthening the line. 

The engineers had dug the line, and during the day 
(the 30th), the greater number of men in it were engineers. 
Elements of infantry were scattered through, without 
much order, but if order there were, one might say that the 
137th was on the left and the 138th on the right. Machine 
guns were in position and the line was ready. The men 
who saw to that were the engineers. In some places ma- 



THE LAST DAY OF BATTLE 235 

chine gunners alone held the front. It was a desperate 
day. 

This message went to the Divisional Machine Gun officer : 

30 September, 10 a. m. 

From Commanding Officer, Co. A, 128th M. G. Bn., at 

Baulny. 

To D. M. G. 0. 

Machine guns unassisted by infantry are being left 
to hold enemy. Our best men have already been killed. 
If the sacrifice is necessary we do not complain, but is 
it necessary? Signed: Schrantz, Capt. 

Only the most immediate action can save the re- 
maining machine guns of the Division. 

Here are other messages of the day : 

From Major Mabrey, 140th Inf., At 03.1-77.9 Foret 

d 'Argonne. 

9 :50 a. m., 30th Sept. 

There are no patrols or companies in the woods that 
we know of. Artillery is firing in own lines again. 
Boche are advancing on our front. 

Signed: Mabray. 
30 September, 1918, 11 :10 a. m. 

From: R. T. Gibson, Captain, C. A. C, Aerial Ob- 
server. 
To G-2, 35th Division. 

1. Tried to call 1st Battalion 128th F. A. Enemy 
shells falling at B5 JO. Phone No. 22. 

Thompson and his Third Battalion of the 138th were 
still outside the works. He had skillfully taken a position 
which the enemy would find difficulty in driving him out 
of and from which he could constantly harass the Ger- 
mans. He was exactly where the enemy did not want him 
to be, and from 3 to 6 a. m. his position was heavily and 
accurately shelled. Thompson's line was unmoved by the 
cannonading, in spite of casualties. This fire came mostly 



236 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

from Thompson 's left flank and his left rear, doubtless out 
of the Argonne Forest. 

After daylight on the morning of the 30th the Germans 
tried to drive him from his position by a counter attack 
out of Montrebeau Wood, which the enemy had re-entered 
immediately after the American withdrawal. At 9 a. m. 
one German ran out with a tripod for a machine gun and 
dropped in a shell hole. Then came another man with the 
gun. Then another with ammunition. Three guns were 
advanced in this way, and Thompson, knowing an attack 
was imminent, called on our artillery for a barrage. The 
Germans came out of the woods in a charging wave, and 
our artillery came across with a perfect barrage at the 
same time. 

The co-ordinates given were perfect, and the aim of the 
guns was no less perfect. The infantry with Chauchats 
and rifles kept up a killing fire on the wave, and it hesitated, 
stopped and retreated into the woods with heavy^ loss. 

During the day three such attacks were repulsed, and 
the enemy machine guns which were constantly being 
pushed forward were fought all day long and many put 
out of commission. 

Major Loy gave Thompson aid, as this message shows: 

30 September, 12:55 p. m. 

From C. 0. 129th M. G. Bn., 300 meters north of Char- 

pentry Evacuation Sta., 12 M. 

To Division M. G. Officer. 

With remnants of Company A, C, and D about 150 
men and 17 guns have taken up position covering 
points of hill 210 along same ridge to extreme right 
flank of Division sector. 128th M. G. Bn. I have 
turned over to C. 0. 138th Inf., who is occupying the 
ridge immediately in our front. Co. B, 129th M. G. 
Bn., has left about 75 men, has lost all its guns, need 
about 12 guns complete. Please answer by phone. 



THE LAST DAY OF BATTLE 237 

Sergt. Koen, who had been in command of L Company 
had rejoined, and, in addition to his other work, he made 
four trips back through the engineers' line and into Char- 
pentry for Capt. Thompson, carrying messages and getting 
rations for the men in the line. Nightfall again found 
Thompson 's men in the line before Montrebeau Wood, grim- 
ly holding on. 

Col. Nuttman, commanding the Sixty-ninth Brigade, had 
become ill, and Col. H. S. Hawkins, chief of staff, had tak- 
en over command of the brigade. Col. Nuttman was evac- 
uated to a hospital in the rear. 

The engineers' line was shelled all day long, and en- 
deavors were made by the enemy to filter machine gunners 
back, but these were prevented. Two light counter at- 
tacks against the line were easily repulsed. 

Some officer, probably Col. Bugge, conceived the idea 
of attacking again to clear the Germans off the immediate 
front. This message replied to the suggestion : 

30 September, 12 :55 p. m. 

From Captain Vallee, 12 :50 p. m. 

To Oklahoma 3. 

Unable to locate the General to secure his O.K. or 
disapproval of plan to advance at 2 o'clock. Have, 
however, seen Colonel Hawkins who states advance to 
be a physical impossibility as men are in the last stages 
of exhaustion and can do nothing more than hold on 
until relief comes, which should come soon. 

At nightfall, the position was where it had been the night 
before, and it was better organized and stronger than it had 
been the preceding evening. 

Soon after dark on the night of Sept. 30, orders were 
received that the 35th Division would be relieved by the 
First Division at 3 a. m., Oct. 1. 

Most everybody was willing but Thompson. He was 



238 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

still out in front with his battalion, fighting the enemy in 
the edge of Montrebeau Wood, keeping perfect touch with 
the Ninety-first on our right, and connecting with the en- 
gineers' line by his patrols. 

At nightfall he again received orders to withdraw, hav- 
ing failed to do so when first ordered, but he felt that his 
position was too vital to permit of his abandoning it until 
a relief had come, so he stuck to the line. He had received 
some rations and ammunition, and was ' ' sitting pretty. ' ' 

At 3 'clock on the morning of Oct. 1, the First Division 
came in for the relief, which it accomplished smoothly and 
with speed. The men came in standing in the shell fire, 
and they took many casualties. Our men, taught the hard 
lesson, presented as little of their bodies to the enemy fire 
as possible. As fast as one of our sections was released it 
was marched to the rear. 

The company of the Twenty-eighth Regulars sent to 
relieve Thompson came in echeloned in depth, with but 50 
men in the front line to take the place of the probably 200 
Thompson had left. Thompson sent his men back under 
other officers and Sergeants, and stayed six hours longer 
with the relief, showing them the lay of the land. When he 
rejoined his outfit near Cheppy, Capt. Bottger had again 
taken command of the battalion. 



CHAPTER XXXVI 



THE RELIEF— THE WORK DONE 

Elements of the Thirty-fifth were grouped just south of 
Charpentry before dawn of Oct. 1 and from there marched 
south to Cheppy and into the area between Cheppy and 
the Forge Moulin, to be sorted, grouped and reassembled. 

The division looked more like a band of refugees than a 
military organization. The men were unshaven, dirty and 
haggard. Their clothing was soiled and torn, their shoes 
muddy and worn out. Many had minor wounds and the 
white bandages were plentiful. A great deal of equipment 
had been lost or abandoned. The men lay about their vari- 
ous grouping spaces, two or three together sleeping under 
one or two raincoats. Many had grown hoarse from cold or 
gas, and nearly every one 's eyes were red from gas and loss 
of sleep. 

A serious dysenteric condition had broken out. Its cause 
was variously ascribed to the water, to eating canned food 
continuously, to the lack of hot food for five days. The epi- 
demic greatly weakened the men and made the reas- 
sembling of units still more difficult. 

It was a sorry band as for looks, but it had played a 
great part in a great battle. The guns were pounding 
heavily just ahead. Airplanes, our own and the enemy's, 
flew above, and the air was full of fighting, shells snarled 
above, but the men slept. 

For this weary, dirty, lousy band of men had in the last 
five days fought with and taken prisoners from six German 
divisions, the First and Fifth Prussian Guard, the First 



240 PROM VAUQttOIS HILL TO EXERMdl^f 

and Second Landwehr, and the Thirty-seventh and Fifty- 
second Divisions of the line. 

They had advanced 12^4 kilometers into enemy terri- 
tory and through the defenses of the Hindenburg line. 
They had organized and held a line 10 kilometers forward 
of the original front. 

They had captured and turned in through their own 
cage as prisoners 751 men and 13 officers. Besides these, 
some 250 prisoners had been cleared through the Ninety- 
first Division's cage. 

Included in the great mass of material captured were 
the following: 

Eighty -five machine guns. 

.One hundred and sixty autorifles. 

One hundred anti-tank guns. 

Four telephone systems. 

One engineer dump. 

Two ammunition dumps. 

Five six-inch howitzers. 

Two machine-gun belt fillers. 

Three 77mm. field pieces. 

One 60 cm. gauge gas engine. 

Four whiz-bangs. 

One anti-aircraft battery. 

Three trench mortars. 

Eleven pieces artillery. 

One one-pound gun. 

The 35th Division had in the meantime suffered 8023 
casualties in four days of desperate fighting. The War 
Department records show 960 killed, 6894 wounded and 
169 captured. Those who died of wounds almost im- 
mediately after being taken to the rear made the num- 
ber of dead exceed 1000. 





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TOP— TANKS IX ACTION 

MIDDLE— CHEPPY 

BOTTOM— GERMAN PRISONERS 



THE RELIEF — THE WORK DONE 241 

The 35th Division had lost in the Argonne approximate- 
ly 7000 men. These were not killed, but any eventuality 
which removes a man from the line takes one effective sol- 
dier from the division. The man taken prisoner or slightly 
gassed and sent to a hospital in the rear, is just as certain- 
ly lost to the effective strength of the organization as the 
man who is killed on the field. 

These 7000 casualties of the Thirty-fifth would look at 
first something like 25 per cent of the division, count- 
ing it at 27,000, but it was much more serious than that. 
Any good division ought to be able to stand 25 per cent cas- 
ualties and keep on fighting. In the first place, the division 
was under strength when it went into the fight. But much 
more important than that, when one endeavors to calculate 
the force remaining, was the fact that nearly all these cas- 
ualties were among the foot soldiers of the advanced ele- 
ments. The Infantry and machine gunners had suffered 
the heavy losses. 

I am sure that on the morning of Sept. 26 the four 
infantry regiments did not average more than 2500 men 
each, and that machine gunners, engineers (ordinarily not 
counted with the combatants) signal corps, intelligence, 
and every other element which had men forward, did not 
total more than 15,000 men. Counting out the men who 
did not bear arms, the division probably sent 14,000 rifles 
on the field. Seven thousand casualties meant virtually a 
50-per-cent loss and weakening of the division. 

The Division went into the battle woefully short of of- 
ficers of all ranks. Full officer strength would have given 
the division two brigadier generals of infantry, but there 
was none. Both brigades were commanded by Colonels. 
Two of the infantry regiments were commanded by Lieu- 
tenant-Colonels. The regiments greatly needed battalion 
and company officers. The average was about three to a 



242 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

company, when it should have been six, one Captain and 
five Lieutenants. If a company was fortunate enough to 
have four officers, one of them was requisitioned by some 
other company which had but two officers. There was one 
Major in the 138th, Sauerwein. Comfort had been at- 
tached to headquarters. After the second day two of the 
battalions were commanded by Lieutenants, Leahy and 
Brightfield. 

The brilliant action on the Eiver Aire, the Thirty-fifth 
on the right and the Twenty-eighth on the left, brought 
from the American command the signal honor of mention 
in the communique. We had been at war for more than 
a year, but the communique had not yet identified the units 
when telling of their work. The communique issued after 
the first day 's fight said : 

''Pennsylvania and Missouri and Kansas troops, serving 
in Major-General Liggett 's corps, stormed Varennes, Mont- 
blainville, Vauquois and Cheppy after stubborn resist- 
ance. ' ' 

The captures of other towns along the line were men- 
tioned, but no other troops specified. The Pennsylvanians 
were in the Twenty-eighth Division, and the Missouri and 
Kansas troops made up the Thirty-fifth. 

The distinguished Generals who saw the troops in the 
British area in May all predicted they would make magnifi- 
cent soldiers and said that they would watch with great 
interest to see whether the predictions were verified. 

I took Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, the English artist, and 
some British writers down to look at the division once, and 
they all said they never had seen better looking soldiers. 

The good predictions came true. At no time in the fight 
was any unit called upon for any action that it did not im- 
mediately try to perform. They advanced just as gallantly 



tse relief — THE work: done 243 

to the last attack as they did in the first, and they under- 
went the exhausting trial, privations and continuous work 
with rare stamina. 

The physical weariness of the men; the losses, which in 
the infantry were nearly 50 per cent among the men more 
than that among the officers; the intermingling of units 
which began in the fog of the first day and continued 
through the action ; all these tended to reduce the efficiency 
of the division. Behind the lines and ready to enter the 
fight was the fresh First Division. The army command put 
the strong, rested unit into the line in the place of the 
weary one which had carried the fight to the enemy during 
the desperate first phase of the battle. 

The First Division held the line the Thirty-fifth turned 
over to it for four days, waiting for the artillery to get 
ready, then it attacked in the second phase of the battle. 
When it advanced, 750 cannon were firing behind it. It 
fought for eight days, bitterly, and lost 9000 men. It ad- 
vanced beyond Fleville but the whole month of October 
did not show a gain in that area greater in depth than that 
the Thirty -fifth had made in the last five days of Septem- 
ber. 

The 35th Division played its glorious part in the Ar- 
gonne-Meuse battle, the decisive battle of the great war. 
It captured strongholds which the enemy had held firmly 
for three years. It went over open lands and sought out 
and whipped the best soldiers of the German Empire. Un- 
der the dull, autumn sky, and through the steady, cold 
rain it pushed ahead, and it reddened that gray field of 
France with the blood of a thousand dead. When it had 
spent its force, it stepped aside to let another refreshed 
division take its place and carry on the work. 



CHAPTER XXXVII 



SOMMEDIEUE, COMMERCY AND HOME 

From Cliepp3% the Division marched south into the area 
lying generally north of Bar-le-Duc, where after a few 
days' rest, they pushed on eastward across the Meuse, and 
took over the very quiet sector south of Verdun, called 
Sommedieue sector. 

It appeared at this time that they would go back in the 
heavy fighting again almost immediately, and the ordnance 
department was ordered to re-equip the men with all speed. 
This was done on the march and at each nightly stopping 
place. The wear and waste of battle had been such that 
150 loads from three-ton trucks were necessary to do this. 
Among other things needed were 6000 steel helmets, which 
had been lost in the fight, a striking commentary on the 
fierceness of the conflict. Ordnance includes almost every- 
thing the soldier carries about him and the machinery by 
which he attaches it to himself. 

The march into Sommedieue was a trying one on the ex- 
hausted men. They seemed to march in a sort of daze. A 
cold rain fell most of the time through which the soldiers 
plodded dumbly. The kitchens came along and the hot 
food and coffee, consumed in great quantities, slowly re- 
vived the men. 

A stiff, neat, energetic colonel from Corps Headquarters 
bounded into the Division on the march, to inspect it. His 
report showed how appalled he was by these ragged men. 
They did not salute him in the manner he desired, and he 

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SOMMEDIEUE, COMMERCY AND HOME 245 

observed on several occasions officers and men talking to- 
gether on conditions of apparent equality and friendship. 
It was most deplorable. In his report to his superiors, he 
said the most cutting thing in his vocabulary, which was: 
''This Division has all the earmarks of a National Guard 
outfit, which it is. ' ' 

These men had descended into hell aud had remained 
there five days in dreadful battle. They had now come out 
again, but they still reeked with the fumes of the brimstone. 
After the manner of National Guardsmen and other hu- 
mans the world around, they had to talk it over. They 
were sick, tired and hungry, and their military courtesj^ 
had lost its snap, but it is difficult to believe that they were 
not just as good soldiers as they were two weeks before, 
when the sight of a Sam Browne belt would have brought 
every man to attention. 

There were issues of new clothing in the Sommedieue 
Sector, but not enough, and shoes, socks and underwear 
were provided, but still not enough to go around ; but best 
of all there was plenty of grub, and with it the return of 
the men to physical fitness. The dysenteric condition dis- 
appeared. Occasionally a man got a bath, everybody 
shaved, and veiy soon the talk was of "When will we get 
back into it again ? ' ' 

On October 10, Brigadier General Dugan joined the Di- 
vision and took command of the brigade. When he started 
on his first tour of inspection, his keen sense of military 
neatness was violated by the first soldier he saw. Turning 
to the Colonel who accompanied him, he demanded fiercely, 
''Why do you allow these men to wear these German 
souvenirs ? ' ' The Colonel did not understand. 

"Don't you see those knives they are wearing?" 

"But, General, that is the American trench knife of the 



246 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

regular issue. ' ' The General passed on in silence. He had 
never seen the weapon before. 

Although General Dugan did not join the Division un- 
til ten days after it came out of the battle, the Distin-. 
guished Service Medal was awarded to him for his good 
work in handling the 70th Brigade in the Argonne-Meuse 
offensive, according to the citation. 

In the Sommedieue sector, there was little doing, al- 
though it was, generally speaking, much livelier than the 
old days in the Vosges. All four regiments were in the 
line, each having two battalions in the line and one in sup- 
port. Strong patrols went out nightly, seeking prisoners, 
and one of these patrols under Captain Truman, pene- 
trated nearly to Etain. 

The sector will be remembered by men of the Thirty-fifth 
particularly as the place where the enemy one night put 
over 7000 gas shells, for no particular reason that we could 
learn. We had about 200 casualties, but nearly all of them 
slight. 

On Nov. 1, the Division passed under the 17 French 
army corps and on Nov. 5, was relieved by the 81st Divi- 
sion. The artillery and ammunition train stayed in the 
Sommedieue sector to support the 81st. 

As the Thirty-fifth was being relieved by the ''Wild Cat" 
Division, as the Eighty-first called itself, the telescope used 
by Lt. Heiny disappeared. This riled the Intelligence Officer 
of the 139th. He detailed two sergeants to the search and 
instructed them to stay in the sector until after the peace 
was signed if they did not get the telescope before that time. 
He sought the ''Wild Cat" Colonel and explained the mat- 
ter to him. Later in the day Heiny discovered where his 
telescope had been concealed, took it and packed it with his 
materials. Then he called upon the "Wild Cat" Colonel 



SOMMEDIEUE, COMMERCY AND HOME 247 

again, saluted very formally, reported that he had discov- 
ered his telescope and bade him ' ' Good-bye. ' ' 

*'I hope you did not think any of our men were trying 
to steal your telescope, ' ' said the Colonel. 

''Oh, that didn't annoy me," Heiny replied, ''stealing 
is all right. I have no objection to that, but the thing that 
makes me sore is that anybody in this outfit thought he 
could put anything like that over on us." 

Our men knew a lot of the tricks of soldiering by the 
time they were relieved in the Sommedieue Sector. They 
looked upon the "Wild Cats" as children who had just 
come into the game, and the men of the Thirty-fifth took a 
kind and fatherly interest in the newcomers. 

The veterans sold the "Wild Cats" all their rubber boots 
at stiff prices, sold them, and collected cash on the spot, all 
the trench stores and surplus ammunition lying about, 
(which of course would remain in the trenches anyway) 
and also disposed at a good figure of a small French mule 
which was used to haul a car along the little narrow gauge 
railway. Then the 35th Division marched happily away 
with the virtuous consciousness that it was spreading light 
in dark places. 

On Nov. 6 and 7, the division marched out of the sector, 
and proceeded, first west and then south, into the area 
about Commercy. There a miserable winter was spent in 
the rain and snow, training, drilling, and being instructed 
in military courtesy. 

Leaves were granted, and officers and men took trips 
through Paris to the South of France, and wandered about 
Nice and Monte Carlo, and through the Riviera, buying* 
post cards and eating restaurant food. Back in Commercy 
old faces began to return. Officers and men who had been 
wounded in the Argon we came back from hospitals, some 



248 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

limping, some with scars, but all of them glad to join up 
again with the old bunch. Others came back too; the of- 
ficers who had been detached and sent to other divisions. 
By the time the outfit started for the coast it looked like an 
Old Home Week. Bennett Clark was a full colonel. He 
and many others had won their promotions with other di- 
visions. Our officers from the regulars were detached one 
by one and sent to other tasks, and the original 35th Divi- 
sion officers took again their old jobs. Everybody was much 
happier. 

Back in their states, the home folks of Missouri and Kan- 
sas gave them royal welcome. Not since the Civil War, if 
ever before, had the towns known such pageantry with the 
rataplan of drums and the march of columned men. 

Ristine, a full colonel now, marched with the 139th in 
its parades. Rieger raised to lieutenant-colonel and wear- 
ing his Distinguished Service Cross, commanded the 138th. 
Clay MacDonald wore on his arm a mourning brassard for 
the son he had lost on Vauquois Hill, and on his shoulder 
the silver maple leaves of the lieutenant colonelcy he had 
won in Montrebeau Wood. 

Both states rose to welcome their soldiers home from 
the wars. In Southwest Missouri the Houn' Dog again 
bayed gloriously. 

The three machine gun battalions once more became the 
2nd Missouri, and Colonel Raupp again watched the 
march-past and took the salute. 

They were mighty men of war, these long boys from 
the Ozarks, and they will not be soon forgot. The windy 
heights of the Vosges and the sodden valley of the Aire 
long will remember those tall men and their clattering 
guns. 

Nor will the world soon forget all the men of the 35th 
Division and the brave part they played on the fields of 
France. 



SOMMEDIEUE, COMMERCY AND HOME 



249 




APPENDIX 



APPENDIX A 

CONCLUSIONS OF GEN. DRUM ON THIRTY-FIFTH 
IN ARGONNE BATTLE 



CONCLUSIONS OF GEN. H. A. DRUM, CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE 
FIRST ARMY, A. E. F. 

HEADQUARTERS, FIRST ARMY 
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, FRANCE 
Office of the Chief of Staff 

October 26, 1918. 
From: Chief of Staff, 1st Army, 
To : Commanding General, 35th Division. 

Subject : Conclusion of an inspection of the conduct of the 35th Division 
during attack in recent operations. 

1, The Army Commander directs me to transmit to you the following con- 
clusions of an inspection of the conduct of the 35th Division during its attack 
in our recent operations. He desires that these conclusions be given the 
greatest weight in the organization and training of your Division. 

2, These conclusions have been deduced from the testimony of several 
eye-witnesses and are transmitted to you with the desire not only to point 
out the causes for undesirable conditions but also to give you a basis for 
the future training of the 35th Division. 

Conclusions: 

1st. That the 35th Division at the commencement of operations, Sep- 
tember 26th, was not a well disciplined combat unit, and the many ofScers 
with the Division were not well-trained leaders. 

2nd. That the Division Staff was not efficient or well organized. 

3rd. That the changes in the Staff and Brigade and Regimental Com- 
manders greatly handicapped the Division Commander in the proper func- 
tioning of his Division. 

4th. That after the attack started there was no system of liaison. Even 
the runners failed to follow the axis of liaison prescribed. 

5th. That brigade and regimental commanders failed to make use of the 
means of liaison at their disposal and failed to keep in touch with their 
higher commanders. 

6th. That the failure of all commanders to keep a headquarters estab- 
lished where communications could be received was inexcusable. 

7th. That the action of brigade and regimental commanders in going far 
to the front and out of all communication resulted in their having no more 
effect on the action than so many company or platoon commanders, and pre- 
vented the headquarters in rear from sending orders to units in front. 

8th. That if commanders had remained in their headquarters or made pro- 
visions for messages reaching them immediately, they would have been 

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able to have had a fair knowledge of conditions, and perhaps have straight- 
ened out the many difficulties that arose. 

9th. That the intermingling, confusion and straggling which commenced 
shortly after H hour showed poor discipline, lack of leadership, and prob- 
ably poor preparation. 

10th. That it was a serious error for both the Division Commander and 
the Chief of Staff to leave their Headquarters at the same time. 

11th. That the five attacks which the Division made followed each other 
so closely that there was no opportunity after the evening of September 26th 
to reorganize, and get the various units in hand. 

12th. That after September 27th the Division was really one in name only 
as maneuvering power with intact units, except the Engineers ceased to 
exist. 

13th. That the casualties among the officers was undoubtedly responsible 
for a great deal of the disorganization. 

14th. That most of the straggling and confusion was caused by men 
getting lost and not having leaders, and not from any deliberate design to go 
to the rear in order to avoid further fighting. 

15th. That the fighting spirit and bravery of officers and men was ex- 
cellent. 

16th. That the failure to have telephone and wireless communication 
forward to include Regiments, and the failure to use the proper code call to 
Corps Headquarters, was due to the inefficiency of Lt. Colonel George A. 
Wieczorek, Signal Corps, then Division Signal Officer. 

17th. That the Artillery Commander, Brig. Gen. L. G. Berry, failed to 
co-operate with and make full use of the Air Service until ordered to do so. 

H. A. DRUM, 
Chief of Staflf. 



APPENDIX B 

GEN. TRAUB'S LETTER OF TRANSMISSION 

HEADQUARTERS 35TH DIVISION 
Office of the Division Commander 

October 30th, 1918. 
SECRET 

From : The Division Commander. 
To: The Commanding General 60th Field Artillery Brigade. 

The Commanding General 69th Infantry Brigade. 

The Commanding General 70th Infantry Brigade. 

East Division Staff Officer. 
Subject : Orders : 

1. There is furnished herewith copy of a letter from the Chief of Staff, 
First Army, A. E. F., dated October 26, 1918, transmitting to the Division 
Commander, the conclusions of an inspection of the conduct of the 35th 
Division during its attack in our recent operations. 

2. I direct that Regimental and Battalion Commanders be assembled and 
have this paper read to them, with a view to assuring their knowledge of 
the defects in this Division when it went into battle, and during the battle 
of September 26-October 1st, and with a view to their making the most 
strenuous eiTorts not to have the errors repeated. These errors in liaison. 



APPENDIX 253 

establishment of fixed P. C.'s, control and self-control, intermingling of units, 
confusion and straggling must be eradicated — they had been pointed out 
strongly by the Division Commander before the battle — and the loss of 
leaders was not sufficient excuse for their being almost universal in the battle. 
When a Commander falls his place must be taken by the next in command. 
This is assured by proper designation in advance and by the proper func- 
tioning of liaison. 

The excuse for a commander to leave his battle station is when he finds 
it necessary to exert his own personality with the forward troops. He must 
not only return when this mission is performed, but he must secure proper 
functioning at this P. C. during his absence, and keep informed as to his 
movements. 

Strict iron discipline is the remedy for disorganization and straggling, 
as well as instruction and training in what to do when separation from or- 
ganizations and loss of leaders have taken place. 

That this Division was not well trained and fit for battle, was not a 
well-disciplined combat unit, and that many officers were not well-trained lead- 
ers are very true statements. This Division had had no opportunity to really 
train for battle as its life for months preceding had been a life in Sector, 
occupying at the end a 35 kilometer front and when relieved from Sector, 
spending its time in marching at night, camping and bivouacking under 
a strict injunction against enemy observations. The Division is once again 
occupying an extensive Sector, has been replenished with, in considerable 
part, green replacements, and it is therefore incumbent on every officer and 
non-commissioned officer to make the most conscientious efforts, the efforts 
of his life that the Country expects of each and every one of us, in order 
that we may overcome our defects and be able to make full use of the wonder- 
ful personnel in our ranks to the complete discomfiture of the enemy and the 
success of our arms. I count on each one in the Division to do his utmost 
to help me in meeting the expectations of the Commander-in-Chief, Ame'"- 
ican Expeditionary Forces, France. 

PKTER E. TRAUB, 
Major General, U. S. Army, 

Commanding. 



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appi:ndix c 



CONFIDENTIAL REPORT ON VAUQUOIS HILL 



confide:ntial. ist army corps, u. s., 

Not to be taken into SE:C0ND SECTION, G. S., 

front line trenches. September 22, 1918. 

VAUQUOIS 

VAUQUOIS may be taken as the perfect example of German fortification, 
combining an elaborate trench system with the use of mines. 

(1) The trenches, during the day, are occupied by sentinels, as few as 
are absolutely essential. The garrison is in deep dugouts affording protec- 
tion from our largest shells. These are very comfortably equipped, having 
electricity, water supply and kitchens close at hand. All necessary supplies 
are brought in by a railroad. On the slightest signal, everyone can be at 
his post of combat. 

(2) The fortress of VAUQUOIS, dominating the plain for 100 miles, is 
one of the points on the front where the Germans have installed themselves 
with great thoroughness. 

In the defensive system of VAUQUOIS mines figured very prominently 
throughout 1916, and the beginning of 1917. Since the month of June, 1917, 
mining activity has steadily decreased. At the present date galleries are 
known to be in existence, but there have been no recent explosions. 

From captured documents dated December, 1917, it appears that VAU- 
QUOIS must be held at any cost. 

If the tactical situation eventually necessitates a retirement the Com- 
mandant of VAUQUOIS is ordered to blow up all mined galleries. 

The garrison of VAUQUOIS, consisting of 18 officers and about 1370 
men, is composed as follows: 

1 Bn. Infantry 6 Off. Approx. 750 men 

Yi Co. Regtl. Pioneers 1 Off. Approx. 100 men 

1-3 Co. Div. Fngrs 1 Off. Approx. 70 men 

1 Co. of the 30th Bn. of Pioneers, sector troops, 

of which the rear echelon, about 100 men, is at 

VARENNES 1 Off. Approx. 130 men 

M. K. 392 (Mining Co.) sector troops, of which 

the rear echelon, about 80 men, is at VA- 

RENNES or CHEPPY 2 Off. Approx. 100 men 

M. K, 298, sector troops, of which the rear 

echelon, about 80 men, is at VARENNES 

or CHEPPY 2 Off. Approx. 100 men 

1 Co. heavy machine guns 4 Off. Approx. 100 men 

1 Detachment of M. W. from the Div. Co. of 

M. W's 1 Off. Approx. 20 men 

Total iT Off. Approx. 1370 men 

DUGOUTS: 

Most of the dugouts are situated on the slopes N. of VAUQUOIS, be- 
tween Hills 265 and 270. 



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COMMUNICATION TRENCHES AND TRACKS: 

Two important communication trenches enter VAUQUOIS from the W. ; 
the Boyau de GRATZ and the Boyau d' AGREM. These lead to a point 
to about 100 m. from the entrances to the dugouts. From this point the 
reliefs come across open ground to the foot of the ladders which lead to the 
tunnels of the dugouts. 

The VARENNES-VAUQUOIS road seems to be the one most used. The 
paths alongside the Boyau de GRATZ are also much frequented. 

RAII.WAYS : 

A narrow gauge railway leads from VARENNES to VAUQUOIS over 
the VARENNES-Pont des QUATRE ENFANTS road as far as the BOURE- 
VIEIvES road. A branch line leads to the Pioneer depot. Another branch 
line leads to the Bois du GRAND BEC to supply the ammunition depot. 

ELECTRICITY : 

The electricity for VAUQUOIS is furnished by a power house installed 
in the caves of the Moulin VARENNES. The current is transported to 
VAUQUOIS by two isolated cables 15 mm. in diameter, fixed on posts 1 m. 
high; these cables leaving the Moulin cross the fields to the S. and follow 
the river as far as the Pont des PIONNIERS 1 km. from VAUQUOIS. 
From there the cables pass to the S. of Hill 213, across the Boyau de 
EUNUQUES, and through the Bois du ROSSIGNOL. From there the 
cables follow the line of the Boyau de GRATZ into VAUQUOIS. 

TUNNELS: 

The tunnels opening on the N. slope of VAUQUOIS come out on the 
perpendicular line of the second trench. Shafts about 15 m. deep, in which 
ladders are placed, constitute the means of communication between the tun- 
nels and the trench. These tunnels were constructed by an electric drill. 
The tunnels are 1^ to 2 m. wide. The walls are not propped except in a 
few places where there is risk of them falling in. The exit of the shafts is 
protected by a roof consisting of a bed of rails covered with a slab of 
reinforced concrete and a layer of sand bags. There are probably 4 tunnels 
in actual use now. Dugouts have been built on the right and on the left by 
simply enlarging the tunnel. 

TRENCHES: 

The trenches of the front line, often not well kept up, are only occupied 
by sentinels. The trench of the second line is reinforced with brick on the 
side towards the enemy. In the parapet steel plates are embedded about 4 
to 5 mm. thick, containing loopholes. Empty sand bags conceal these steel 
plates from view. The Germans use less sand bags for reinforcing their 
parapets than the French. A good number of the trenches are covered. 



256 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



APPENDIX D 

REPORT OF CAPT. HOFFMAN 

REPORT OF CAPT. HOFFMAN, DIVISION PSYCHIATRIST 

HEADQUARTERS 3STH DIVISION 

Office Division Psychiatrist 

AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES 

October 24th, 1918. 
From: The Division Psychiatrist, 35th Division. 
To: The Senior Consultant in Neuro-psychiatry. 
Subject: Report of work during September and October. 

1. From September 1st to September 26th, 1918, the Division was con- 
stantly on the move and only routine work was done, except sitting as a 
member of a Medical Board in the cases of two Colonels, referred by Com- 
manding General. These cases were sent back for reclassification. 

2. F'rom September 26th to October 2d, 1918, this division was actively 
engaged in the allied offensive. My station during this time was at the triage. 

3. Captain Henschel, M. C, U. S. A., was sent from Corps Headquar- 
ters and did splendid work. 

4. The first day of the ofifensive the rest hospital, i.e., one of the Field 
Hospitals of the division was not yet established. This was due to the 
intense congestion of traffic, the roads being blocked for over twenty-four 
hours, hence our sanitary troops with tentage could not reach the triage. 
So many cases came through the triage that it was necessary to evacuate 
all psychiatric cases, as the triage was filled to more than capacity. It was 
raining and cold, and it would be necessary to keep the men in the mud 
without litters or blankets if they remained at the triage. 

5. A total of 6301 cases of all kinds passed through the triage of the 
35th Division. These came from many divisions as follows: 



35th Division 


4623 


37th Division 


87 


28th Division 


443 


91st Division 


798 


Miscellaneous 


350 


Total, 


6301 



6. From the second day, only cases which I thought would not be fit 
for duty in a very short time, were evacuated, the others being sent to our 
rest hospital. 

7. In the great rush of cases during the next few days the rest hospital 
was constantly filled to capacity and it was absolutely necessary to 
evacuate everything, hence, many cases which would have cleared up in a 
few days were sent to the rear. At one time there were 1400 cases in the 
triage, 800 in the advance dressing station and all transportation at a stand- 
still. 

8. Many foreign trucks, i.e., trucks from Corps, Army and other divisions, 
evacuated cases from the front. Many of these went direct from the front 



APPENDIX 257 

to the evacuation hospitals, the cases not being triaged. No doubt many 
of these cases were of this division. 

9. The Corps Psychiatrist reported daily and appeared favorably im- 
pressed, at least not making suggestions. 

10. It has come to my attention that the Chief Surgeon of the 1st Army 
rendered a complaint to the Division Surgeon of the 35th Division con- 
cerning the large amount of psychiatric cases evacuated to the rear. The 
foregoing is my explanation, i.e., the blocking of all transportation, the lack 
of transportation on the first day, the inclement weather and the large 
amount of casualties. HARRY R. HOFFMAN, 

Captain, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, 

Division Psychiatrist. 



35TH DIVISION CODE NAMES FROM BATTLE ORDER 

Clear Code 

Division headquarters Oklahoma 

Commanding general Oklahoma 1 

Aides Oklahoma 2 

Chief of Staff Oklahoma 3 

G-1 Oklahoma 5 

G-2 Oklahoma 6 

G-3 Oklahoma 7 

60th Artillery Brigade. . . . ; Octave 

128th Artillery Osock 

129th Artillery Ogee 

130th Artillery Omlet 

69th Infantry Bg Oriley 

137th Infantry Obispo 

1 38th Infantry Ogrady 

70th Infantry Bg Okonite 

1 39th Infantry Oakleaf 

140th Infantry Oblong 

28th Division Roadrunner 

91st Division Maroon 

Battalions had code names of Head, Foot and Tail, respectively, 
for first, second and third battalions. 



258 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

APPENDIX K 

GEN. CLARK'S LETTER TO HIS MEN 

Copy of letter written by Gen. H. C. Clark to officers and men of the 
35th Division on their departure from Camp Doniphan for France. 

TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 35TH DIVISION: 

In wishing you godspeed on the eve of your departure for France, it is 
not necessary for me to tell you that it is the supreme sorrow of my whole 
life that I cannot go with you. Your Division is composed of members of the 
National Guard of Missouri and Kansas. I have served continuously with 
the former from the day I left military school a young boy, twenty-nine 
years ago. I served with many of you during the Spanish-American War, and 
the Missouri National Guard was under my command during the six months 
we were on the Mexican Border in 1916. I commanded the thirteen thou- 
sand National Guard troops furnished by this state from the time they en- 
tered the federal service on August 5, 1917, until they moved to Camp Doni- 
phan. I served with you at your present station until my discharge be- 
cause of my inability to meet the physical tests of the examining board on 
December 22, 1917, and it would be strange indeed if this long association 
with you had not resulted in an affectionate regard for you and a spirit of 
comradeship known only to those who have served together in the field. 
During the time I was with you at Camp Doniphan, I had opportunity to 
observe the Kansas National Guard and to know many of its officers inti- 
mately and well, and what I say to my own people apphes to our comrades 
from our sister state who come from the same stock, having the same ideals 
and characteristics and separated only by an imaginary line marking the 
boundary between the two states. It is your good fortune to be commanded 
by a Regular officer of the highest standing in the army and whose service 
in the field had won him this command. His miUtary ability is beyond ques- 
tion. 

You represent the highest type of the American Volunteer. You are vol- 
unteers pure and simple. You entered the National Guard of your own 
accord and with motives of unselfish and disinterested devotion to the high- 
est duty which an American citizen can perform. You took an obligation 
to serve your state and to answer the call of the nation should the emergency 
arise. The emergency has come and you have not faltered. Many of you 
have given your very lives to this service; no one knows better than the 
undersigned of your faithful and unswerving loyalty under the most dis- 
couraging circumstances and surroundings. You have been ridiculed and 
made light of, but you have not faltered. You have kept the faith. You 
have been given the acid test and the scoffers' lips have been forever 
silenced. The people of Missouri are proud of you and they pay homage 
to you, knowing that you will measure up to the best traditions of the 
American volunteer. You represent the first line troops furnished by Mis- 
souri and Kansas and you will soon demonstrate to the world on the battle- 
fields of Europe that the virile manhood and rugged citizenship of your 
state, as exemplified in the Mexican War, the Civil War, the expedition com- 
manded by a Missourian whose name your camp bears, and in the Spanish- 
American War, is not surpassed in any army in the world. 

The heart of every loyal Missourian goes out to you and you will be in 



APPENDIX 259 

their thoughts constantly until you return. They do not tell you to do your 
duty; they know you will do that and more. And be assured that when you 
return they will welcome you with everlasting gratitude and undying ap- 
preciation. I can only keep camp for you while you are gone, but I will 
not fail you and yours, and if I am alive I will be here to welcome you 
when you return. If I could shake the hand of each officer and man in this 
Division I could not express to him what is in my heart ; I could only say, 
"Good-bye, old man, and God bless you." Harvey C. Clark. 



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APPENDIX F 



ORGANIZATION OF THE DIVISION ON THREE 
DATES 

According to the official records of the division, which contain a few 
errors, the division, when it was attached to the British forces, was organ- 
ized as follows : 



The Commanding General 

Chief of Staff 

The Asst. Chief of Staff G-1 

The Asst. Chief of Staff G-2 

The Asst. Chief of Staff G-3. 

The Division Surgeon 

The Division Signal Officer 

The Division Engineer 

The Division Adjutant 

The Division Personnel Adjutant 

The Division Veterinarian 

The Division Inspector 

The Division Judge Advocate 

The Division Ordnance Officer 

The Division Gas Officer 

Liaison Officer from British 

128th Machine Gun BattaHon 

69th Infantry Brigade 
137th Infantry 
138th Infantry 
129th Machine Gun Battalion 

70th Infantry Brigade 
139th Infantry 
140th Infantry 

130th Machine Gun Battalion 
110th Engineer Regiment 
110th Engineer Train 
110th Train Hdq. & Mil. Police 

60th Field Artillery Brigade 
128th Field Artillery 
129th Field Artillery 
130th Field Artillery 
110th Trench Mortar Battery 
110th Ammunition Train 
110th Field Signal Battalion 
110th Motor Supply Train 
110th Sanitary Train 
Field Hospital Section 
Field Ambulance Section 
110th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop 
112th Mobile Section Vet. Unit 
Sanitary Squad No. 1 
Sanitary Squad No. 2 



Major General William Wright 
Colonel Robert McCleave 
Major Dwight F. Davis 
Captain Parker C. Kallock, Jr. 
Major W. V. Gallagher 
Lt. Colonel Raymond Turck 
Major George A. Wieczorek 
Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney 
Major J. M. Hobson 
Captain William Moreland 
Captain Ora P. Davis 
Major John F. Clapham 
Major George P. Whitsett 
Major C. E. Delaplane 
1st Lieut. William J. Knox 
Capt. B. Fitz G. Wilson 
Major Wesley Halliburton 
Brig. General Nathaniel McClure 
Colonel Clad Hamilton 
Colonel Edmund J. McMahon 
Major Thomas H. Loy 
Brig. General Charles I. Martin 
Colonel John D. , McNeely 
Colonel Albert Linxwiler 
Major John F. Constable 
Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney 
1st Lieut. Peake Vincil 
Colonel Willie Rowan 
Brig. General Lucien G. Berry 
Col. Frank M. Rumbold 
Col. Karl D. Klemm 
Col. Hugh Means 
Capt. Fred. W. Manchester 
Lt. Col. Fred. R. Fitzpatrick 
Major Milton R. McLean 
Major George M. Faught 
INlajor Herbert C. Woolley 
Major Oliver C. Gebhart 
INlajor William L. Gist 
2nd Lieut. Henry McDonald 
1st Lieut. Calvin F. Bennett 
1st Lieut. Oliver C. Wenger 
1st. Lieut. Thomas Wilson 



APPENDIX 



261 



On the inorni 



ng of the Argonne Battle, this was the organization 



Commanding General 
Chief of Staff 
Asst. Chief of Staflf G-1 
Asst. Chief of Staff G-2 
Asst. Chief of Staff G-3 
Division Surgeon 
Division Signal Officer 
Division Engineer 
Division Gas Officer 
Division Machine Gun Officer 
Division Adjutant 
Division Personnel Adjutant 
Division Veterinarian 
Division Quartermaster 
Division Inspector 
Division Judge Advocate 
Division Ordnance Officer 
128th Mach Gun Batn. 

69th Infantry Brigade 
129th Mach. Gun Batn. 
137th Infantry 
I38th Infantry 

70th Infantry Brigade 
130th Mach. Gun Batn. 
139th Infantry 
140th Infantry 
110th Engineers 
110th Engineer Train 
110th Field Signal Batn. 
110th Train Hdq. & Mil. Police 
110th Supply Train 
110th Sanitary Train 
Field Hospital Section 
Field Ambulance Section 

60th Field Art. Brigade 
128th Field Art. 
129th Field Art. 
130th Field Art. 
110th Trench Mortar Battery 
110th Mobile Ord. Rep. Shop 



Major General Peter E. Traub 
Col. Hamilton S. Hawkins 
Col. W. R. Gibson 
:\Iajor Parker C. Kalloch 
Lt. Col. Walter V. Gallagher 
Lt. Col. Raymond C. Turck 
Et. Col. Hans O. Olson 
Col. Thomas C. Clarke 
Capt. William W. Wise 
Et. Col. Donald D. Hay 
Major William Ellis 
Capt. WilHam R. Thurston 
Capt. Ora P. Davis 
Major Arthur Parker 
Capt. Edward C. Sammons 
Major Victor E. Ruehl 
Capt. Mark Weatherford 
Major Westley Halliburton 
Colonel Louis M. Nuttman 
Major Thomas H. Eoy 
Colonel Clad Hamilton 
Col. Harry S. Howland 
Col. Kirby Walker 
Major John T. Constable 
Lt. Col. Carl L. Ristine 
Lt. Col. Channing E. Delaplane 
Col. Thomas C. Clarke 
1st Lieut. Peake Vincil 
Major Milton R. McLean 
Col. Willie Rowan 
Major George M, Faught 
Major Herbert C. Woolley 
Major Oliver C. Gebhart 
IMayor William L. Gist 
Brig. Gen. Lucien G. Berry 
Col. Frank M. Rumbold 
Col. Karl D. Klemm 
Major William W. Thurston 
Capt. Fred W. Manchester 
1st Lieut. Edward C. Rose 



On March 30, when ready to sail for home, the division was organized 



thus : 

Commanding General 
Chief of Staff 
Asst. C/S G-1 
Asst. C/S G-2 
Asst. C/S G-3 
Division Surgeon 
Division Signal Officer 
Division Engineer 
Division Gas Officer 
Division Adjutant 
Division Personnel Adjt. 



:Major General Wm. M. Wright. 
Col. R. McCleave 
Col. Bennett C. Clark 
Major Jelks H. Cabaniss 
Lt. Col. Dwight F. Davis 
Lt. Col. Carl R. Phillips 
Major Milton R. McLean 
Lt. Col. Edward M. Stayton 
Major Andrew LeB. Russell 
Lt. Col. William EHis 
Capt. James A. Brewer 



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Division Quartermaster 
Division Inspector 
Division Judge Advocate 
Division Ordnance Officer 
128th Mach. Gun Batn. 

69th Infantry Brigade 
129th Mach. Gun Btn. 
137th Infantry 
138th Infantry 

70th Infantry Brigade 
130th Mach. Gun Batn. 
139th Infantry 
140th Infantry 
110th Engineers 
110th Field Signal Batn. 
110th Supply Train 
110th Sanitary Train 
110th Train Hdqs. 



Lt. Col. Arthur Parker 
Lt. Col. Edward C. Sammons 
Major Victor E. Ruehl 
Major Mark Weatherford 
Major Westley Halliburton 
Col. Willie McD. Rowan 
Major Thomas H. Loy 
Lt. Col. John H. O'Connor 
Major Warren L. Mabrey 
Col. Albert Linxwiler 
Major Ward L. Schrantz 
Major Randall Wilson 
Lt. Col. Smith A. Harris 
Lt. Col. Edward M. Stayton 
Major Milton R. McLean 
Major Charles J. Hall 
Major Oliver C. Gebhart 
Major James F. Going. 



APPENDIX 263 



APPENDIX G 

RECORD OF CHANGES IN HIGHER OFFICERS 

Partial List of Changes in Higher Officers of Division — From Division Records 

COMMANDING 35TH DIVISION 

From To 

Maj.-Gen. William M. Wright Oct. 1, 1917 June 16, 1918 

Brig.-Gen. Nathaniel F. McClure June 16, 1918 July 20, 1918 

Maj.-Gen. Peter E. Traub July 20, 1918 Dec. 27, 1918 

Brig.-Gen. Thomas Dugan Dec. 29, 1918 March 1, 1919 

Maj.-Gen. William M. Wright March 1, 1919 Muster out 

COMMANDING 69TH INFANTRY BRIGADE 

Brig.-Gen. Arthur B. Donnelly Oct. 1, 1917 May 9, 1918 

Col. Edmund J. McMahon May 9, 1918 May 26, 1918 

Brig.-Gen. Nathaniel F. McClure May 26, 1918 June 16, 1918 

Col. Edmund J. McMahon June 16, 1918 July 20, 1918 

Brig.-Gen. Nathaniel F. McClure July 20, 1918 Sept. 21, 1918 

Brig.-Gen. Louis M. Nuttman Sept. 21, 1918 Nov. 21, 1918 

Brig.-Gen. Thomas W. Darrah Nov. 27, 1918 

137TH INFANTRY 

Col. Perry M. Hoisington Oct. 1, 1917 Jan. 14, 1918 

Col. George H. McMasters Jan. 18, 1918 April 20, 1918 

Col. Clad Hamilton April 20, 1918 Sept. 28, 1918 

Maj. John H. O'Connor Sept. 28, 1918 Oct. 9, 1918 

Maj. Edward C. Sammons Oct. 9, 1918 Oct. 13, 1918 

Col. J. M. Cullison Oct. 13, 1918 Oct. 28, 1918 

Ivieut.-Col. Martyn H. Shute Oct. 28, 1918 Nov. 27, 1918 

Col. Ira L. Reeves Nov. 27, 1918 

138TH INFANTRY 

Col. Leroy K. Robbins Oct. 1, 1917 Nov. 3, 1917 

Col. Philip J. Kealy Nov. 3, 1917 Jan. 21, 1918 

Col. Julius T. Conrad Jan. 21, 1918 April 9, 1918 

Col. Edmund J. McMahon April 9, 1918 July 5, 1918 

Col. George P. White July 25, 1918 Sept. 14, 1918 

Lieut.-Col. Henry W. Parker Sept. 14, 1918 Sept. 25, 1918 

Col. Harry S. Howland Sept. 25, 1918 Sept. 26, 1918 

Lieut.-Col. Henry W. Parker Sept. 26, 1918 Sept. 28, 1918 

Maj. Norman B. Comfort Sept. 28, 1918 Oct. 9, 1918 

Col. Americus Mitchell Oct. 9, 1918 

129TH MACHINE GUN BATTALION 
Maj. Thomas H. Loy Oct, 1, 1917 

128TH MACHINE GUN BATTALION 
Maj. Wesley HalHburton Oct. 1, 1917 



264 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 

70TH INFANTRY BRIGADE 

Brig.-Gen. Charles I. Martin Oct. 1, 1917 . Sept. 21, 1918 

Col. Kirby Walker Sept. 21, 1918 Oct. 13, 1918 

Brig.-Gen. Thomas B. Dugan Oct. 13, 1918 Dec. 27, 1918 

Col. Alonzo Gray Dec. 27, 1918 Feb. 14, 1919 

Col. Carl h. Ristine Feb. 14, 1919 Feb. 20, 1919 

Col. Albert Linxweiler Feb. 20, 1919 April 14, 1919 

130TH MACHINE GUN BATTALION 

Maj. Elmer B. Trowbridge Oct. 1, 1917 Dec. 1, 1917 

Maj. John F. Constable Dec. 2, 1917 Sept. 27, 1918 

Capt. William S. Moore Sept. 27, 1918 Nov. 6, 1918 

Maj. Ray R. Powers Nov. 6,1918 Jan. 4, 1919 

Capt. Paul A. Frey Jan. 5, 1919 Feb. 2, 1919 

Maj. Ray R. Powers Feb. 3, 1919 Feb. 20, 1919 

Capt. Paul A. Frey Feb. 21, 1919 Mar. 23, 1919 

Maj. C. H. Fitzgerald March 24, 1919 Mar. 28, 1919 

Maj. Ward L. Schrantz March 29, 1919 May 7, 1919 

139TH INFANTRY 

Col. John D. McNeeley Oct. 1, 1917 June 12, 191S 

Col. Kirby Walker June 13, 1918 Sept. 21, 1918 

Lieut-Col. Carl L. Ristine Sept. 21, 1918 Oct. 13, 1918 

Col. Kirby Walker Oct. 13, 1918 Oct. 15, 1918 

Col. Carl L. Ristine Oct. 15, 1918 

140TH INFANTRY 

Col. Albert Linxwiler Oct. 1, 1917 June 18, 1918 

Col. Pierce A. Murphy June 18, 1918 Sept. 16, 1918 

Maj. Fred L. Lemmon Sept. 16, 1918 Sept. 22, 1918 

Lieut.-Col. Channing E. Delaplane Sept. 22, 1918 Oct. 16, 1918 

Col. Alonzo Gray Oct. 16, 1918 Jan. 3, 1919 

Lt.-Col. Sidney D. Maize Jan. 3, 1919 Feb. 18, 1919 

Lt.-Col. Smith A. Harris Feb. 18, 1919 Mar. 29, 1919 

Lt.-Col. Fred L. Lemmon March 29, 1919 April 14, 1919 

Col. Albert Linxweiler April 14, 1919 ' May 14, 1919 

60TH FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE 
Brig.-Gen. Lucien G. Berry Oct. 1, 1917 

128TH FIELD ARTILLERY 

Col. Frank M. Rumbold Oct. 1, 1917 Sept. 24, 1918 

Lieut.-Col. Walter J. Warner Sept. 24, 1918 Nov. 16, 1918 

Col. George A. Taylor Nov. 16, 1918 

129TH FIELD ARTILLERY 
Col. Karl D. Klemm Oct. 1, 1917 

130TH FIELD ARTILLERY 

Col. Hugh Means Oct. 1, 1917 May 9, 1918 

Maj. Thomas H. Jennings May 9, 1918 May 30, 1918 

Lieut.-Col. Roy F. Waring May 30, 1918 July 5, 1918 

Maj. Thomas H. Jennings July 5, 1918 Aug. 3, 1918 

Lieut.-Col. James E. Wilson Aug. 3, 1918 Sept. 7, 1918 

Lieut-Col. William W. Thurston Sept. 7, 1918 Nov. 8, 1918 

Col. Hugh S. Brown Nov. 8, 1918 



APPENDIX 265 

llOTH TRENCH MORTAR BATTERY 
Capt. Fred W. Manchester Oct. 1, 1917 

llOTH ENGINEERS 

Col. Sherwood A. Cheney Oct. 1, 1917 Aug. 4, 1918 

Col. Thomas C. Clarke Aug. 4, 1918 

llOTH FIELD SIGNAL BATTALION 
Maj. Milton R. McLean Oct. 1, 1917 

llOTH TRAIN HEADQUARTERS AND MILITARY POLICE 

Maj. Lute P. Stover Oct. 1, 1917 Mar. 30, 1918 

Col. Willie McD. Rowan April 4, 1918 

llOTH AMMUNITION TRAIN 
Lieut-Col. Fred R. Fitzpatrick Oct. 1, 1917 

llOTH MOTOR SUPPLY TRAIN 

Maj. Carl O. Houseman Oct. 1, 1917 Feb. 16, 1918 

Maj. William A. Pattison Feb. 16, 1918 Mar. 10, 1918 

Maj. George M. Faught March 10, 1918 

llOTH SANITARY TRAIN 

Lieut.-CoI. W. T. Davidson Oct. 1, 1917 Feb. 12, 1918 

Lieut.-Col. Herbert C. Wv^olley Feb. 12, 1918 



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APPENDIX H 

ASSIGNMENT OF MISSOURI GUARD UNITS 

HOW THE 35TH DIVISION WAS MADE UP 
(Missouri National Guard) 



Former State Designation 
Headquarters 1st Infantry 

Brigade 

1 st Infantry 

2d Infantry : 

1st Battalion and Machine 
Gun Company 

Supply Company and Head- 
quarters Company, less 
band 

2d Battalion 

3d Battalion 

Band 

3d Infantry 

4tli Infantry : 

Less band 

Band 

5th Infantry: 

Less band 

Band 

6th Infantry : 

Less band 

Band 

Troop B Cavalry 

1st Regiment Field Artillery. . 
2d Regiment Field Artillery... 

Battalion Engineers 

Battalion Signal Corps 

Supply Train 

1st and 2d Field Hospital 

1st and 2d Ambulance 

Companies 



Reorganized as or Assigned to 



Division 



Headquarters 70th Infantry 

Brigade 

138th Infantry 



128th Machine Gun Battalior 



110th Trench Mortar Battery 
129th Machine Gun Battalion 
130th Machine Gun Battalion 

311th Cavalry 

140th Infantry 

139th Infantry... 

Camp Custer, Mich 

138th Infantry 

Camp Wadsworth, S. C 

140th Infantry 

Camp Pike, Ark 

i29th Field Artillery 

128th Field Artillery 

129th Field Artillery 

1 1 0th Engineers 

117th Field Signal Battalion 

1 10th Supply Train 

1 1 0th Sanitary Train 

do 



35th 
35th 



35th 

35th 
35th 
35th 

35th 

35th 



35th 

P D C. A. 

Troops 

35th 

35 th 
35 th 
35th 
35th 
42d 
35th 
35th 

35 th 



APPENDIX 



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APPENDIX I 

ASSIGNMENT OP KANSAS GUARD UNITS 

(Kansas National Guard) 



Former State Designation 


Reorganized as or Assigned to 


Division 


Headquarters 1st Kansas 

Infantry Brig-ade 

1st Infantry: 


Brigade Headquarters, 70ih 

Tnfantrv Rricraflp 


35 th 


137 th Infantry 


35th 






35 th 




137th Infantry 


35th 




1 39th Infantry 


35th 


1st Squadron Cavalry: 
Troop A 


Division Headquarters Troop. . 
110th Headquarters and 

l\/rilifarv Pnlirp 


35th 


Troops B, C, and D 


35th 


First Regiment Field Artiller} 
1st Separate Battalion 


1 ^nth Field Artillerv 


35 th 


1 1 0th Engineers 


35 th 


Ist Battalion Signal Troops... 
1st Ammunition Train 


110th Field Signal Battalion... 

117th Ammunition Train 

110th Engineer Train 

1 1 Oth Sanitarv Train 


35th 
42d 
35th 


Field Hospital Companies 

Nos. 1 and 2 

Ambulance Companies 

Nos. 1 and 2 


35th 


do 


35 th 



ROSTER 

OF THE 

NATIONAL GUARD OF MISSOURI 

Inducted into Federal Service August 5, 1917. 



The organization consisted of two Brigades of Infantry, two Regi- 
ments of Field Artillery, one Signal Corps Battalion, one Battalion of 
Engineers, one Motor Truck Supply Train, two Field Hospital Com- 
panies, two Ainbulance Companies and one Troop of Cavalry. The 
entire National Guard of Missouri was commanded by Harvey C. 
Clark as Commanding General, with Headquarters at Nevada. The 
Signal Corps Battalion became part of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division. 



FIRST MISSOURI INFANTRY BRIGADE 

(Composed of the 2d, 4th and 6th Regiments of Infantry) 



Brigadier General, 


Major, 


Harvey C. Clark, 


Norman S. Pearman, 


Commanding 


Adjutant 



BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS 



Brigade Sergeant Maj( 
Mains, Charles E. 

1st Class Privates: 
Atkeson, Ralph W. 



Cooper, Joseph D. 
Madden, Frank J. 
Parker, Dale 
Wolff. Charles H. 



Ansell, Frank 
Weir, Frank 
Sutton, Wilbert h. 
Miller, Theodore B. 



1st I/ieut. and Bn. Adjt. 
Bradford B. Minor 



SECOND REGIMENT INFANTRY 

FIELD AND STAFF 
Pierce City 

Colonel, Major, 

William A. Raupp, Thomas H. I^oy 

Commanding Major, 1st Lieut, and Bn. Adjt. 

Ueutenant Colonel, ^i^^^. g Trowbridge John F. Williams 

Paul Tucker ^, ,. ,, ^ . . -r ■ , ^ *,• 

Major Chaplain and 1st L,ieut. 1st Ivieut. and Bn. Adjt., 

Wes'ley Halliburton Rowland Q. Mackintosh James K. Saunders 

HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

Pierce City 



Captain, 

Harold W. Brown 
Rgt. Sgt. Maj., 

Ivaridon, Charles 
Bn. Sgt. Maj., 

Le Sieur, Joseph V. 
Bn. Sgt. Maj., 

Purdy, Clifford H. 
Bn. Sgt. Maj., 

Weber, Walter W. 
Color Sergeants : 

Blue, Carl 

Barris, Dalzell D. 
Sergeant Bugler, 

Harbison, Douglas 
1st Sergeant, 

Mann, Harlen G. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Faulkner, Richard 
Supply Sergeant, 

Lowe, Floyd 
Stable Sergeant, 

Leavitt, Alpheus 
Sergeant, 

Allen, Frank 
Horseshoer, 

Walthall, Flmer 



Band Section Bolivar 

Cooks : 

Moore, Hollis A. 

Painter, William D. 
Band Leader, 

Parker, William R. 
Asst. Band Leader, 

Loy, Gene H. 
Band Sergeants : 

Evans, Don C. 

Loy, Paul W. 
Band Corporals : 

Bickers, Le Vergne N. 

McCracken, Joe H. 

Shankland, Harry Rex 

Vickrey, Elbert R. 
1st Class Musicians: 

Ellis, A. G. Neil 

Lee, Homer 
2nd Class Musicians: 

Marcell, Miles K. 

McCracken, Barnett 

James, William W. 

Jarratt, Claude 
3rd Class Musicians: 

Brown, Richard H. 

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Collins, Loren E. 

Davis, Glen L. 

Morgan, Walter D. 

Suttles, Austin M. 

Seamans, Loren W. 

Shelton, Jacob N. 

Sperry, Alva J. 

Wiek, Earl F. 

Wasson, Lowell T. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bandy, E. Ralph 

Hinerman, Waldo T. 

James, Richard R. 
Privates : 

Boyce, Alvah E. 

Browning, Cecil E. 

Douglas, John A. 

Faulkner, Homer L. 

Kemper, Carlin H. 

Koon, James O. 

Kuklenski, John A. 

Lamun, Bernard S. 

Lewis, Walter 

Phelan, Dennis B. 

Wicks, Alan F. 

Wells, Herbert L. 



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Captain 

Fred W. Manchester 
2d lyieutenant, 

Clyde A. Narramore 
Rgt. Sup. Sgt., 

Baldwin, Thomas C. 
Rgt. Sup. Sgt., 

Higgs, Noah F. 
Rgt. Sup. Sgt., 

Baker, Chester F. 
1st Sergeant, 

Ballinger, Homer J. 
Mess Sergeant, 

King, Charles B. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Burney, Thomas J. 



SUPPLY COMPANY 

JOPLIN 

Corporal, 

Hughes, Donald S. 
Cook, 

Hunter, lyawrence O. 
Saddler, 

Hardman, James C. 
Horseshoer, 

Martin, Bernard B. 
Wagoners : 

Anderson, Lowell 

Baker, Lee 

Balden, Archie A. 

Binns, Archie Z. 

Binns, Kddie 

Birchfield, Moss 

Bledsoe, Walter 

Boyce, Flva V. 

Conner, Harry M. 



Cooper, Vincil 
Day,\ Melvin 
Dent, Lee W. 
Derkoski, John 
Privates: 
Hogue, Samuel V. 
Hood, William D. 
Hopkins, Albert L. 
Horn, Buford J. 
Houchin, Wm. T. 
McCoy, Floyd 
McCoy, William O. 
Miller, Ray 
Palmer, Arthur D. 
Redlinger, Jack J. 
Rutherford, Clarence 
Stark, Nathaniel L. 
Tattom, Samuel L. 
Watson, James R. 



MACHINE GUN COMPANY 

Nevada 



Captain, 

James J. Corey 
1st Lieutenant, 

Harry J. Beagles 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Kdwin Samuel 
2nd Lieutenant, 

James L. S enter 
1st Sergeant, 

Harrel, Ival W. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Teel, Roy F. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Scroghem, Alphus 
Stable Sergeant, 

Cubbin, J. Alex 
Horseshoer, 

Bishop, John H. 
Sergeants, 

Casenburg, Frank K. 

Inwood, W. Clarence 

Mikesell, Chester H, 

Smith, Fred W. 

Teel, Emmet 

Whaley, William 

Wilhelmson, George 
Corporals: 

Bratton. Lew H. 

Ftter, James C. 



Phillips, Laton F. 

Schuman, Fdd 

Ulrich, Elwood 

Wardin, Herbert B. 

Williams, John 
Mechanics: 

Boyd, Lora 

Johnson, Herbert R. 
Cooks: 

Kpperson, David A. 

Wareing, Harry 
Buglers: 

Dempsey, Gomer W. 

Lynch, Bernice F. 
1st Class Privates: 

Boyd, James F. 

Braswell, Mack A. 

Corp, George A. 

King, Orville W. 

Kinkead, William B. 

McClease, Frvine 

Mann, James F. 

Maze, Henry S. 

Price, Thomas A. 

Rader, Edwin V. 

Wallace, Robert IT. 

Wingate, Barnes I. 
Privates: 

Barnes, William B. 



Bolinger, John W. 
Braswell, Walter E. 
Charles, George E. 
Davis, Harry R. 
Driver, Don 
Harvey, Samuel R. 
Hays, Ira 
Hughes, Floyd C. 
Kinkead, John P. 
Lock, William F. 
Lovell, Lafe W. 
McElwain, Dewey 
McSpadden, Leo 
Milligan, Worth B. 
Morley, Charles E. 
Ogles, Otis E. 
Phillips, Emery T. 
Pierceall, Paul E. 
Pope, Harry E. 
Purcell, William H. 
Rehmel, Ira K. 
Rinehart, Brice 
Rooney, William J. 
Snell, Roy 
Snyder, Pearl E. 
Strader, Walter E. 
Thomas, Archie 
Wells, Oran N. 
Whitlock, Robert E. 



Captain, 

Ward L. Schrantz 
1st Lieutenant, 

Louise E. Dottwiler 



COMPANY A 

Carthage 

2d Lieutenant, 

Frank L. Snyder 
1st Sergeant, 

Snyder, George A. 



Supply Sergeant, 
Havens, David H. 

Mess Sergeant, 
Glenn, Robert D. 



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Sergeants: 

Brown, Willard 

Edwards, Charles S. 

Ellis, Ernest K. 

Hines, James A, 

Hopwood, Nerval R. 

Wiggins, Edwin W. 

Ford, Warren A. 

Hopkins, William M. 
Corporals: 

Havens, William P. 

Clark, Fred R . 

Stuckey, Lloyd J. 

Kaselack, Otto E. 

Hooten, Louis E. 

Davis, James M. 

Miles, Albert C. 

Cain, Carl J. 

Bradley, Richard C. 

Roach, Robert E. 

Ford, Paul 

Bonner, Virgil H. 

Matchael, John S. 

Stuckey, Lyle E. 

Taylor, Joseph E. 

Amerman, James W. 
Cooks: 

Newman, Harry E. 

Cronk, John F. 

Jones, Harry C. 
Buglers: 

Daugherty, Thomas M 

Chapman, Thomas O. 
Mechanics: 

Powers, John L. 

Starcher, Norman T. 
1st Class Privates: 

Babcock, Guy 

Bennett, Charles R. 

Breckenridge, Vern H. 

Burke, Arthur C. 

Comer, Dewey 

Cone, Claude L. 

Culbertson, Richmond 
E. 

Harlow, Thomas J. 

McKinney, Charles K. 

Moore, William N. 

Parker, Fred H. 

Palmer, Harry H. 



Smith, Austin L. 
Sparks, Joe 
Springer, Garnett A. 
Thomas, Clinton E. 
West, G. Wallace 
Privates: 

Akin, Leaford J. 
Allen, William 
Amick, Erwin E. 
Anderson, Frank O. 
Baker, John C. 
Baker, Roy C. 
Baldwin, Jesse 
Bays, Alvin 
Black, William B. 
Blackford, Henry C. 
Blue, Harry M. 
Brewer, Albert L. 
Brown, Harry 
Capps, Ernest C. 
Cash, Samuel E. 
Clark, Herman 
Clark, Thomas E. 
Cook, Fred 
Devers, William L- 
Dudley, James A. 
Eastin, Carl N. 
Epperson, Carl B. 
Ford, Raleigh B. 
Ford, Ray P. 
Fox, Joseph J. 
French, Harry J. 
Frost, George D. 
Gardner, George D. 
Gilliland, Lester F. 
Glass, John M. 
Glenn, William J. B. 
Gouty, John C. 
Gragg, Vertil C. 
Grissom, Charles O. 
Hannum, Edward A, 
Harvey, Joseph W. 
Havens, E. Glenn 
Herron, George B. 
Hickman, Harry E. 
Hier, Isaac E. 
Hilton, Theo. E. 
Hines, William H. 
Hornback, John D. 
Hufif, Robert B. 
Hunt, Noel R. 



Jacksouy Frank H. 
Keller, Harley E. 
Kelton, Leonard 
Landers, Joe L. 
Luke, Charles W. 
McAshland, Sam A. 
McFadden, John H. 
McKinney, Earl F. 
Manier, Ralph E. 
Mayabb, Leonard 
Mealey, Rex B. 
Medcalf, Henderson 
Mertins, Charles L. 
Moody. Bert I. 
Moorman, John I^. 
Morris, Leonard H. 
Mort, James D. 
Moss, Hugh O. 
Moyer, Morgan J. 
Nickell, J. Ford 
Parsons, Dote S. 
Patterson, Clarence H. 
Powers, Earnest 
Prickett, Carl L. 
Prince, Earl F. 
Rapp, Daniel H. 
Redding, Ira C. 
Ring, Eugene 
Robinson, Fred D. 
Robinson, Ward P. 
Roos, Guy A. 
Saunders, Mark 
Schmidli, Paul H. 
Sinclair, John F. 
Smiddy, Verna D. 
Smith, Chas. D., 
Smith, Mark 
Starcher, Ferreld J. 
Tangner, Carl A. 
Tavlor, Bert E. 
Tyler, Jesse C. 
Vaughn, Lewis L. 
Voorhis, Arthur E. 
Watson, Chancy J, 
Weaver, Al 
White, Charles C. 
Wood, Harry W. 
Wright, Delbert 
Ziler, Estel C. 
Zogg,, Martin F. 



Captain, 

George L. Caruthers 
1st Lieutenant, 

William O. Jackson 
2d Lieutenant, 

John C. Frazier 
1st Sergeant, 

Keeser, Floyd 



COMPANY B 
Butler 

Mess Sergeant, 

Haynes, Richard E. 
Sergeants: 

Burner, Thomas J. 

Yates, Charles B. 

Muchmore, Omer S. 
Corporals: 

Nicolay, Clark 



Barker, Lewis H. 
Grant, William T. 
Abbott, William R. 
Gerby, James 
Quails, Delbert R. 
Hayes, Emmett W. 
Herrell, Henry A. 
Orear, Ed S. 



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Welch, Clarence L- 

Weldon, Harry L,. 
Mechanic, 

Wells, Pearl h. 
Cooks: 

Scheurich, Elmer L. 
Buglers: 

Biser, Ramon W. 

Johnson, Harley W. 
1st Class Privates: 

Grow, Leland 

Huddleston, Oria 

Smith, Lester C. 

Wright, Charles H. 
Privates: 

Agee, Peter O., 

Anderson, Carl A. 

Argenbright, Grover 

Atkinson, Charley 
Bain, Henry E. 
Baugher, Clee B. 
Bingham, Roy M. 
Bishop, \Villiam F. 
Blankenship, William 
Bowles, Everett 
Bowles, Lewis J. 
Branscum, Russell 
Brown, James E. 
Butler, Clyde B. 
Caviness, James 
Cawood, Charley E. 
Chapman, Earl 
Chapman, Elbert F. 
Chapman, Roy F. 
Clark, James Riley 
Close, Glenn W. 
Cofifman, Frank E. 
Colvin, Roy D. 
Courtney, Willard 
Davis, Hugh R. 



Davis, Richard D. 
Davis, William H. 
Dixon, Cloyde G. 
Dubbs, John C. 
Elliott, Hoyt J,. 
Forbes, Ruby E. 
Fuller, Edward D. 
Gibbs, Floy F. 
Greenlee, John Earl 
Grow, Raymond D. 
Haney, Francis N. 
Hayes, Howard V. 
Hawley, Casper L. 
Hedger, Frank R. 
Hendricks, Ira C. 
Henry, William C. 
Hinrichs, Herman 
Howell, Oris E. 
Inskeep, George 
Jackson, William M. 
Keen, Guy V. 
Kornhaus, William 
Lance, Kelly 
Lehnherr, June L. 
LeMasters, Russell 1< 
Lewis, Abraham H, 
Lewis, Joe S. 
McClure, Marvin 
McGrew, Charles V. 
McSpadden, Sam 
Martz, William D. 
Mason, Rhoby 
Mefford, Homer B. 
Menefee, Harry E. 
Miller, Fountain R 
Moles, James A. 
Moore, Christy L. 
Morrow, Fred R. 
Mustard, Biney 



Nrsterrode, Nelson M. 

H. 
Newman, Fred 
Norris, Charles W. 
Cakes, Thomas E. 
Gates. William S. 
Orr, Leslie 
Owens, Charley H. 
Patterson, Omer 
Flew, James O. 
Ruble, George W. 
Ruble, Richard H. 
Scott, Irl T. 
Scott, John L. 
Scott, Warren D. 
Selby, Louis H. 
Shumate, Ben F. 
Skates, Simon 
Sollars, Guy O. 
Stacy, Luther L. 
Strait, Charles G. 
Tabler, George A. 
Taft, Wells L. 
Terry, Ernest 
Thomas, Charles D. 
Thurman, Orel E. 
Tweed, George 
Walters, John 
Walters, John W. 
Warnken, Frank E. 
Warnken, Lawrence 

W. 
Williams, Richard A. 
Wilson, Ray E. 
Wilson, William D. 
Wiser, Claud 
Wisherd, Ray 
Wolfe, Harvey 
Yates, Frank L. 
Young, Ben H. 
Zwahlen, Leslie C. 



COMPANY C 

Lamar 



Captain, 

James A. Frow 
1st Lieutenant 

Robert P. Thompson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Fred D. Hays 
1st Sergeant, 

Sheppard, Clarence W 
Mess Sergeant, 

Schubert, Edward 
Supply Sergeant 

Reed, Wm. H. 
Sergeants: 

Hess, Lee H. 

Hickman, Charley W. 

Anderson, Lawrence 

Rains, Jesse 

Inglish, Gordon 

Wine, Robert Y, 



Corporals: 

Benford, William 

Cooper, Frank 

Lockwood, Arthur M. 

Thompson, Paul B. 

Cox, Edgar A. 

Gordon, Arthur B. 

Beall, Edgar 

Vlazny, Frank D. 

Jones, Milton 

Wills, Lester 

Daetwyler, Carl 

Magers, Elmer 
Mechanics: 

Boyd, David W. 

Stewart, Walter E. 
Cooks: 

Dainty, Allen 

McKissock, Archie L. 



Buglers: 

Shipman, Joseph 

Pierce, Ross 
1st Class Privates: 

Haddon, James R. 

Patterson, Roy E. 
Privates: 

Allen, Joseph T. 

Arft, Carl M. 

Arnold, James H. 

Barber, John 

Bays, Earl 

Beisner, Henry W. 

Black, John 

Bloomfield, Sherman 

Bond, Robert E. 

Bouton, Harry J. 

Bowker, Roy 

Butler, James W. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Briley, Clyde T. 
Cabodier, Tony 
Chandler, Cecil D. 
Conrad, Lloyd B. 
Cooper, Charles 
Coring, Don 
Cox, Albert 
Cunningham, Oran F. 
Custin, Perry S. 
Dale, Robert N. 
Davidson, James 
Davis, Amos, B. 
Day, Marshal D. 
DePriest, Noble O. 
Devine, Earl 
Dickey, Chauncey L. 
Dryden, Cecil V. 
Duff, William E. 
Duggan, Thomas A. 
Duncan, Jesse Y. 
Earp, George 
Erwin, Roy E. 
Fletcher, Ray E. 
Gage, Amos 
Gooseman, Emmett V 
Gossy Clinton C. 
Greenstreet, Craig 
Griffith, Frank W. 
Griffith, Ray 
Hackney, Alfred D. 
Handy, Chauncey E. 
Harrell, Emmett 
Hassen, Edward 



Hedgecorth, Jesse 
Hedrick, Charles P. 
Hensley, Orvil 
Herrell, Roy 
Hill, Hurley W. 
Hill, James 
Hughes, Wady H. 
Jackson, Ewart C. 
Janes, Harold E. 
Jobe, James 
Johnson, Herbert W. 
Jones, Harry G. 
Jones, Ray E. 
Jones, William 
Kessler, Claude E. 
Knight, Allen 
Labove, Levoda 
Landers, Vernon 
Lawson, James W. 
Lewis, George 
McAlexander, Harold 

E. 
McCary, Lyle B. 
McHoney, Joseph R. 
McKee, Charlie 
McKinney, Mally B. 
Massey, Harold G. 
Millard, Elvin A. 
Moody, Hobart 
Moreland, Thomas 
Morris, Phillip 
Norvell, Otis W. 
Page, Ben L. 



Peak. Troy C. 
Prigmore, Bert 
Pruitt, William F. 
Ramage, William Jr. 
Rapp, Guy 
Reed, Harrison H. 
Roberts, Glenn E. 
Robertson, Perry H. 
Ross, Guy L. 
Rouse, Bryan 
Russell, Leslie C. 
Schubert, Lawrence 

B. 
Seth, Dewey 
Shaw, Albert J. 
Shaw, Elver 
Shearer, Earl H, 
Shreve, Dewey 
Smith, Alva 
Smith, Marion J. 
Smith, William R. 
Sparkman, Seth E. 
Stahl, Ira L. 
Stone, Andrew 
Summers, Earl 
Swift, Jesse 
Taylor, William N. 
Teal, Ray H. 
Tennant, Maurice E. 
Underbill, Thomas J. 
Vail, Jesse L. 
Wilson, Ernest C. 
Wine, Charles C. 
Witherspoon. Arley B. 



Captain, 

Mark D. Springer 
1st Lieutenant, 

Wayne T. Boles 
2d Lieutenant, 

Felix G. Halstead 
1st Sergeant, 

Mullins, Bob 

Mess Sergeant, 

Thomas, Fred A, 
Supply Sergeant, 

Bishop, Sterling A. 
Sergeants: 

Morgan, John F. 

Waters, Clyde 

Myers, Nathanie J. 

Mapes, Homer 

Hogan, Mason S. 

Dwyer, Harry J. 
Corporals: 

Walker, George W. 

Myers, Lewis W. 

Hollingshad, Will 

Morrison, Frank E. 

Parker, Harvey L- 

Ozburn, Fred L. 



COMPANY D 

West Plains 

Wilkerson, Earl 

Gray, Clarence B. 
Cooks: 

Mallory, Nathaniel 

Kendricks, William H. 

Scott, Christopher C. 
Mechanic, 

Wilcox, Hubert 
Bugler, 

McKinstry, Paul 
1st Class Privates: 

Bloomer, Paul 

Mashburn, William S. 

Trower, Samuel F. 
Privates: 

Abbott, Alfred R. 

Acklin, Albert A. 

Allen, George 

Alsup, Barton 

Alsup, James F. 

Alsup, Martin 

Atkinson, Bryan 

Bailey, Earnest J. 

Barker, William 

Baughman, Isaian I. 

Best, Acel 



Billups, Frank 
Bly, Thurman C. 
Bray, Carl 
Britain, Robert H. 
Brown, Charles 
Brown, Samuel F. 
Buker, Charles E. 
Burns, David C. 
Calhoon, Ramon M. 
Calhoon, Roy J. 
Callahan, William H. 
Carlock, Dorsey E. 
Childers, Leaman J. 
Coats, Jack 
Coffey, Harvey A. 
Coke, Adam 
Collins, Shafter 
Countryman, Cecil P. 
Cowan, Frank L. 
Crockett, Maurice A. 
Crossland, Ralph 
Curtis, Owen D. 
Dold, Fred 

Donaldson, Charles H. 
Duffy, Arthur N. 
England, Raymond D. 



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Files, Paul 
Fisher, Floyd F, 
Forester, Manuel 
Foster, Charles K. 
Frost, Wayne W. 
Glinn, Archie 
Hamilton, Fred P. 
Hardin, Carl 
Hardin, Colman D. 
Harvey, Carl P. 
Harvey, Guy 
Heselton, Russell C. 
Hollingshad, Guy W. 
Hook, Troy A. 
Horsman, Sherd. 
Horton, Oscar S. 
Hull, Tony R. 
Huston, Leslie F. 
Ingold, Oscar O. 
Ingalsbe, Harry O. 
Johnson, James A. 
Jolliff, Dan B. 
Jones, Leonard A. 



Captain, 

Walter Tydings 
1st Lieutenant, 

Warren S. Perry 
2d Lieutenant, 

George N. Cale 
1st Sergeant, 

Manning, Fdward L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Deputy, Louis L. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Randall, Paul 
Sergeants: 

Almegourd, Salem D. 

Cale, Harvey A. 

Hasselbring, Fritz 

Hawkins, Lester R. 

Johnson, Arthur F. 

Johnson, Carl O. 

McDermitt, Charles 
M. 

Swindle, Harold R. 
Corporals: 

Allcock, William L. 

Bartkoski, Anthony 

Bradford, John L. 

Crisp, Jess 

Hammar, Hobert 

Hanes, Lester B. 

Houston, Mace 

Knighten, Earl A. 

Lynn, Clarence 

McGuire, Will J. 

Patton, Roy W. 

Reeves, Herschel G, 

Ridpath, McKinley 



Jones, Ralph 
Layman, Clarence 
Leasher, Clyde C. 
Lewis, Harry G. 
McCracken, Jesse J. 
McMillian, Alonzo 
McMillian, Earnest 
McMillian, George W. 
Myers, Thomas A. 
Marcum, George 
Messer, Harry L. 
Mitchell, Harry 
Myers, Thomas A. 
Orr, James D. 
Parker, Richard 
Parks, Joe H. 
Peterson, Lonnie 
Petri, Henry 
Piper, Alfred L. 
Piper, William L. 
Provost, Lawrence R. 
Reese, Fred H. 
Remick, Cant J. 

COMPANY E 

Sarcoxie 

Ruskoski, Albert J. 

Williamson, James A. 
Cooks: 

Yazell, Charles G. 

Houston, Hugh 
Mechanic, 

Sprague, Edison 
Musicians : 

Gill, Thomas O. 

Jones, Rufus 
1st Class Privates: 

Abegg, Joseph A. 

Barnard, Clyde 

Casey, Sidney 

Childers, Roy 

Lacewell, Milles 

Moneyham, John H. 

Overall, George W. 

Overall, Golden R. 

Plummer, Loren W. 

Stephens, George C. 

Trentham, Lee C. 

Vaught, Glenn 

Wells, Joe D. 
Privates: 

Abramovitz, George 

Atwood, Stanley 

Barnett, Charles 

Bartkoski, Henry 

Bartkoski, John S. 

Beck, John D. 

Belch, Rush 

Bell, William A. 

Bergen, Clarence 

Bethel, Hoyt T. 

Bingham, LeRoy 

Bishop, Frank J. 



Ross, Charley S. 
Schauffler, Theodore J. 
Shadwell, James W. 
Shepherd, George A. 
Shannon, Marvin 
Sloan, Earnest 
Sloan, Harry 
Smith, Oliver D. 
Sterling, Clyde 
Stine, Lester E. 
Taylor, Alvin S. 
Thomas, Waymon W. 
Thompson, Connard 

H. 
Thompson, Walter 
Thrailkill, George C. 
Todd, Earl 
Verdot, John 
Ward, Clifford S. 
Warren, Paul R. 
Welch, John D. 
White, Luther S. 
Wilcox, Roscoe 



Bobski, Edward 
Box, Lester J. 
Brewer, Plorace 
Carpenter, Lawrence 
Chandler, Charley 
Chandler, Roy 
Coffee, Hugh E. 
Cook, Lee G. 
Cox, Nelvey E. 
Cross, William D. 
Crumley, John E. 
Decker, Harvey A. 
Dobbs, Orville 
Dombroski, Florence 
Douglas, Earl G. 
Eiskina, John 
Elbert, George 
Elbert, Robert 
Gabriel, Leonard E. 
George, Harold H. 
Gorman, Frank 
Gregory, Charles E. 
Griffin, Arthur 
Griffin, William A. 
Griffith.Oakley 
Hagebusch, Edward 
Hagedorn, Ben 
Hamilton, Charles J, 
Hammer, Harry T. 
Harbour, Joseph N. 
Hopkins, Charles C. 
Horn, Harry J. 
Jackson, Harvey 
Kelley, Albert M. 
Kenski, Joe J. 
Kinchloe, Alvin G. 
Koerper, Harry J. 



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Kresymore, Tony A. 
Lamb, Hubert 
Leary, James C. 
McKinney, Will 
Meador, Louis 
Merrifield, Arthur 
Mills, Earnest W. 
Mitchell, Forest M. 
Mize, Harry 
Morris, James L. 
Musick, Paul F, 
Osborn , Dennis L. 
Overall, Herman L. 
Peeples, William R, 
Phipps, William 



Rhoades, Walter 
Robb, William H. 
Roberson, Paul J. 
Russell, Noland M. 
Sandison, Claude C. 
Sapp, Chad 
Scott, Peter T. 
Seaton, John W. 
Silvey, Ellis 
Spencer, Carl K. 
Southern, Sam 
Stopanski, Victor J. 
Testerman, Orval 
Trader, Joe 



Tuck, Jim 
Velton, Edward J. 
Velton, Fred J. 
Vermillion, Reason 
Waldron, Harvey 
Warner, Francis M. 
Weatherman, Charley 
Wicke, Noel 
Wiley, Dewey 
Wiley, Dolphy 
Woolridge, Leslie 
Woolford, Harold 
Wroblewski, Albert J. 
Zebert, Frank 
Zebert, Joe M. 



Captain, 

Courtney A. McKinley 
1st Lieutenant, 

Clement P. Dickinson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Taylor L. Francisco 
1st Sergeant, 

Sperry, Floyd L. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Carter, William E. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Walter, Edwin A. 
Sergeants: 

Gregory, Paul 

Eraser, Grover C. 

Harris, Ira E. 

Hicks, James W. 

McCormick, William 
V. 

White, Joseph G. 

Burris. Ira E. 
Corporals: 

McGinnis, William H. 

Locke, Raymond I. 

Walker, Louis C. 

Baker, Fay E. 

Farley, Charles E. 

Mea, Ray 
Cooks: 

Douglas, Walter B. 

Downing, Ralph E. 

Stephens, William B. 
Musicians: 

Murdock, Ernest 

Weir, Frank F. 
Mechanics: 

Jackson, George R. 

Wright, Harold B. 
Privates: 

Anderson, Eugene W. 

Bagby, Hubert 

Baker, Belmont G. 

Ball, James A. 

Bennett, William R. 

Bourke, Edgar 



COMPANY F 
Clinton 

Bowen, Jesse G. 
Branstetter, Robert J. 
Breeden, William F. 
Briggs, Bryan 
Briggs, Samuel 
Brown, Roy L- 
Brown, Sherman 
Bunch, Clayton I. 
Bunch, William C. 
Burns, William 
Campbell, Carl L. 
Campbell, Lee E. 
Carlton, Arleigh 
Cecil, Rodney 
Chalmers, Clarence L. 
Chaney, William 
Chastain, J. Earl 
Clark, Edward 
Clark, J. Franklin 
Collins, James Guy 
Colson, Burlle D. 
Conger, Arthur 
Cornelius, Jesse E. 
Crawford, Walter S. 
Darden, Henry L. 
Daugherty, Jesse L. 
Denny, Gordon 
Dickinson, T. Seldon 
Doty, _ Ralph E. 
Downing, Ben 
Downing, Donald 
Durbin, Arthur C. 
Dutton, William Henry 
Fassler, Ambrose A. 
Fassler, Joseph L. 
Faulkner, John F. 
Firsick, Charles A. 
Gray, Guy P. 
Green, Donovan H. 
Gumm, Fern M. 
Halfen, Herbert H. 
Hanger, Charles O. 
Hicks, Edward R. 
Hill, Rolla E. 
Hodges, Flemon 



Hollingsworth, George 

M. 
HoUoway, Fred 
Howard, Henry 
Hutson, Clarence M. 
Jones, Charles B. 
Jones, Ezra M. 
Julian, John M. 
Justis, William A, 
King, George D. 
Kitchen, Frank P. 
LaHue, Walter H. 
Lambert, Jesse M. 
Langford, W. Perry 
Lawler, Robert G. 
Leet, Frank 
Long, Lewis L. 
McVay, Clarence 
Mann, Earl V. 
Mansfield, Ralph V. 
Marsh, Fred J. 
Marshall, J, Ross 
Mason, Charles E. 
Mason, John E. 
Matthews, C. Ray 
Mitchell, Myro 
Mock, Roy L. 
Mock, Troy L. 
Moffett, Hugh W. 
Neal, John 
Nida, Arthur W. 
Odle, Ed 

Overbey, Clinton S. 
Page, Frederick H. 
Park, Arlie H. 
Park, Verna T, 
Parrish, Henry J. 
Peninger, Ely J. 
Phelps, James E. 
Poague, Lorence H. 
Sherman, O. Finley 
Short, Charles E. 
Smith, Arthur C. 
Smith, Thomas H, 
Smith, Thomas J. 



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Spangler, Homer M. 
Stacy, John W. 
Starkey, Glen R. 
Stewart, John B. 
Stewart, Samuel H. 
Stogsdill, Thomas 
Sumner, John T. 



Swan, Glenn J. 
Terry, Claud 
Thompson, Albert D. 
Tribble, Ernest 
TuU, Ottis W. 
Vaughn, Willie 
Wallace, A. Hayden 



Wardrip, Otto L,. 
Weakley, M. Ray 
Wells, Eugene E. 
White, James M. 
Willis, George W. 
Wise, James I,. 
Wooden, Sidney H. 



Captain, 

Myron F. Bundy 
1st Lieutenant, 

Eudwig L. Everson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Ralph D. Henderson 
1st Sergeant, 

Elsea, Albert E. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Grant, Edward D. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Freeman, Leslie V. 
Sergeants: 

Hutchins, Frank 

Horn, Pearl 

Beasley, Alvin M. 

Corder, Corwin H. 

Malott, Charles 

Quinn, Perry M. 
Corporals: 

Fannon, Frank M. 

Overlees, Joseph L. 

Hunter, Elmer E. 

Strauss, Lester F. 

Shivley, Hayden W. 

Fetty, Victor G. 

Zehr, Roy M. 

Counts, Glenn H. 

DeMott, Lonnie F. 

Steger, John W. 

Davis, Grant L. 

Bartlow, Charles H. 

Love, Charles M. 

Harbin, James F. 

Buchanan, Earl M. 
Mechanics: 

Cain, William J. 

Dougherty, Roy J. 
Cooks: 

Butcher, Jesse L. 

Ackers, Walter H. 

Richardson, Buel C. 
Buglers: 

Hyde, William G. 

Clark, Walter L. 
1st Class Private, 

Williams, Clarence 
Privates: 

Adams, Herbert 

Alderson, Walter E. 

Archer, Virgil D. 

Atkinson, Vere W. 

Augter, Emil F. 



COMPANY G 

JOPLIN 

Bicknell, John T. 
Blackweil, Earl B. 
Brogan, Francis R. 
Brooks, James A. 
Brown, Dwight W. 
Brown, Joseph 
Caldwell, Oakley P. 
Campbell, Ray W. 
Cheesman, Myron M. 
Chew, Alvin F. 
Clark, George 
Cook, Francis 
Cole, Robert R. 
Conrad, Clifton 
Cox, Elvin V. 
Crawford, Sidney J. 
Curran, Charles H. 
Davis, Napoleon B. 
Denton, Ralph 
Dunham, Will M. 
Ferrell, Otis L. 
Fletcher, Joseph T. 
Floyd, Byron 
Forrest, Thomas 
Fox, Cyril V. 
Garrard, Taylor C. 
Gibson, Clyde R. 
Glenn, Joseph 
Graham, Craig H. 
Haill, Charles W. 
Hamilton, Ellis D. 
Hamilton, Roy Lee 
Hamilton, Vaughn S. 
Handy, Floyd 
Harrington, Oscar A. 
Harrison, George W. 
Harrison, Virgil T. 
Hatfield, Jesse L. 
Hatfield, Roy 
Hayden, William O. 
Henderson, Egbert K 
Henderson, Robert O. 
Hendricks, Louis H. 
Hendry, Alva D. 
Hites, Miller E. 
Hooker, John F. 
Hopkins, Obert D. 
Hubbard. Charles R. 
James, Carl R. 
Jones, Marvin W. 
Jones, Waitsel A. 
Karr, James A. 
Karr, Jesse L. 



Koontz, James L. 
Krause, Irvin G. 
Krieg, Charles R. 
Largen, Logan J. 
Lawder, Winslow F. 
Lipps, Samuel L. 
Livingston, James 
Lochart, George T. 
Love, Joe W. 
McConnell, Luther F. 
Madden, Joseph P. 
Meek, Forrest E. 
Mering, Clarence R. 
Metsker, Henry 
Miller, Dewey O. 
Moreland, Stanley P. 
Moss, Bennie H. 
Myers, Earl F. 
Newman, Durand 
Newton, Datus 
Newton, Perry I. 
O'Banion, Frank M. 
Owen, R. A. 
Patterson, Cordell C. 
Protherow, Elmer C. 
Purvis, Ruloff 
Raskin, Israel H. 
Renner, Jacob V. 
Richardson, Robert O. 
Roach, Walter R. 
Sage, Guy 
Schahill, Frank B. 
Showers, Wesley H. 
Sinor, Jesse W. 
Spoon, Jesse M. 
Stanfield, Sam S. 
Stiles, Edward S. 
Storey, Ralph J. 
Suman, Alonzo R. 
Switzer, Andrew J. 
Tansey, Guffra T. 
Taylor, Meredith 
Tilden, William 
Tucker, Chester H, 
Warren, George L- 
Watts, Donald W. 
Webb, Elwood P. 
Weldgen, John G. 
Williams, Lemuel 
Wood, Lee 
Yocum, Cecil B. 
Young, Oral 
Zumbrunn, Sentman L. 



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Captain, 

Douglas D. McDonald 
1st Lieutenant, 

Roy W. Butts 
2d Lieutenant, 

Charles Hughes 
1st Sergeant, 

Callison, James M. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Jones, Floyd W. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Hough, Porter C. 
Sergeants: 

Conner, Paul W. 

Palmer, Stanleigh K. 

Shellman, George W. 

Kaffenberger, Lewis L. 

Barrows, Carl R. 

Wills, Virgil M. 

McSpadden, Donovan 
M. 
Corporals: 

Fuller, William C. 

Harris, Mark 

Senn, Everet S. 

Mills, Sylvester A. 

Webb, Herbert E. 

Dye, Guy A. 

Osborne, Raymond i^. 

Roberts, Thomas H. 

Williams, Headley 

Davis, John L. 

Atkinson, Orville 

Frank, Burton 

Hawk, Elbert 

McKesson, Neal D. 
Mechanics: 

Lorance, Russell D. 

O'Dell, Roy C. 

Cooks: 

Smart, Huber 

Hurt, James D. 
Buglers: 

Crumb, James 
1st Class Privates: 

Barker, Raymond J. 

Blickensderfer, Her- 
man 

Butler, Vernon H. 

Claiborne, Homer B. 

Coffman, Guy O. 

Dalton, Thomas C. 



COMPANY H 

Lebanon 

Dent, Thomas A, 
Duckworth, Joe O. 
Dye, Donald E. 
Johnson, Floyd 
Joslin, Merlin F. 
Lambeth, Glenn W. 
McKesson, Robert D. 
McNellis, Louis H. 
Maples, Horace B. 
Mawhiney, Hyman L- 
Norris, Ben F. 
Nudelman, Adolph W. 
Parker, Jesse N. 
Parrick, Roy 
Pidcock, Harry R. 
Ruble, George M. 
Towers, Russell 
Weissgerber, Walter 

c. 

Young, Buford R. 
Privates: 

Adams, Alva 
Adams, James A. 
Allen, Marion C. 
Baker, Spursey A. 
Bates, Earnest 
Beiswinger, Warner 
Cafifey, Samuel C. 
Carlton, John M. 
Chastain, Orestus 
Clifton, Roy 
Copeland, Jesse A. 
Davis, Ben A. 
Davis, Lee 
Davis, Ralph H. 
Devore, Robert C. 
Dibben, Edwin F. 
Elder, Ralph 
Elder, Raymond 
Epstein, Walter A, 
Francis, Joseph L- 
Franklin, Allen 
Gage, Arthur 
Garrett, Homer R. 
Harrill, Dewey 
Harshaw, Marion B. 
Hartman, Herbert C. 
Hays, Clarence H. 
Hendricks, Ferman J. 
Holland, Nelson 
Hooper, Floyd 
Hunter, William J. 



Jaynes, Andrew 
Jones, Andrew C. 
Jones, Roy H. 
Jones, Sam 
Lillard, Wilber 
McDowell, Homer H. 
McKee, Robert 
Mayfield, Randolph C. 
Montgomery Clarence 

L« 
Montgomery, Lowell 
Nobles, Lonzo C. 
Norton, Joseph J. 
Osborn, Lonnie 
Owen, Oscar S. 
Paul, Columbus N. 
Ponder, William C. 
Pritchett, Burl C. 
Reading, Lionel O. 
Rhodes, Isaac 
Riley, Will S. 
Roney, Morris E. 
Scrivener, Reese M. 
Shank, Eli 
Sharp, Emma 
Sharp, Homer C. 
Shockley, George W. 
Skiles, Roy 
Smith, Edmond H. 
Snow, Elmer 
Snow, F'loyd J. 
Stagner, Claude A. 
Starns, Homer 
Starns, Orvil L. 
Stonecipher, Charles 
Sullivan, Clarence 
Sullivan, Granville M. 
Sumner, Adam R. 
Teavor, Orla 
Thompson, Jasper L. 
Tozer, Norman L. 
Trower, Everett C. 
Vermillion, Rufus 
Webb, Earl L. 
West, John W. 
Westerman, Toba 
Whitaker, Carl G. 
Williams, Ezra 
Wills, Roy F. 
Windsor, Willie 
Wofford, Dock A. 
Wofford. George O. 
Wynn, Clarence M. 



Captain, 

Fred H. Nesbitt 
1st Lieutenant, 

Charles R. Marquiss 



COMPANY I 
Webb City 

2nd Lieutenant, 

Ernest V. Arbuckle 
1st Sergeant, 

Traux, William S. 



Mess Sergeant, 

Higgs, Clyde 
Supply Sergeant, 

Marquis, Louis A. 



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Sergeants: 
Gault, Erwin 
Layton, Roy 
Hart, Frank 
Davis, Ben F. 
McMechan, Addison 

K 

Corporals: 

Rhoads, Cecil 
Whitescarver, Robert 

W. 
Harrison, Otto 
Hoffman, Carl N. 
Gove, Charley 
Frings, Godfrey 
Cheek, Burl 
Williams, Earnest H. 
Campbell, Everett 
Cooper, Baldwin 
Bly, Ernest 
Hunt, Harold F. 
Frankeberger, Ralph 

L. 
Forester, Clifford B. 
Vawter, Marion F. 
Scholes, William W. 
Lowry, Charles I. 
Cooks: 

Smith, John W. 
Pilgrim, Walter 
Wright, Harold J. 
Buglers: 

Davenport, Edwin F. 

Mort, Howard T. 
Mechanics: 

Erwin, Don 

Flournoy, Linn E. 
Privates: 

Adkins, Garland R, 

Allen, Clay C. 

Ashcraft. Edward B. 

Avery, Lee C. 

Beeler, James A. 

Birkes, Fred 

Box, Harley R. 

Breeden, Hobart 

Bryan, Oscar 

Bullock, Preston S. 

Byersdorf, Louis Iv. 

Camerer, Harvev 

Cardwell, Carl R. 

Carlisle, Walter L. 

Cartright, Jack D. 



Cash, Stanley 
Cline, James V. 
Cline, Mont 
Corker, Hamilton C. 
Craig, Charles M. 
Crohn, Louis H. 
Cunningham, Frank 
Cunningham, Hobert 
Currington, Hugh 
Cusick, Newton F. 
Davis, Eddie 
Dean, Harry N. 
DeWitt, John K. 
DeWitt, William 
Dorrell, Bryan 
Drugg, Walter C. 
Dunn, William 
Elliff, Charles M. 
Ellis, Henry H. 
Faass, Clarence 
Finn, Elbert B. 
Fisher, Mode 
Fleming, Russell 
Frings, Louis J. 
Gates, Edward 

Gedney, Ben 

Gibbons, John A. 

Hall, Leonard T. 

Hamick, Charles H. 

Hargis, William L. 

Harlan, Glenn L. 

Harmon, Fred M. 

Harp, Walter 

Hill, Robert 

Hinamon, Hubert B. 

James, Raymond 

Jarmin, Kenneth 

Jeffries, Lucian 

Jeffries, Seth M. 

Johnson, Carl C. 

Johnson, Ernest M. 

Johnston, Oscar 

Tones, Henry 

Keith, Arthur E. 

Kendall. William D. 

King, Frank 

Lamberson, Lloyd B. 

Lands, Fred Z. 

Lawrence, Hershal 

r,inn, Delmar 
Long, Walter 

McCormick, Edward 
F. 



McCown, James L. 
McCuUough, Clarence 

McGarrah, Bruce 

McKay, Jerome R. 

McKee, Joe 

McKinley, Charles W. 

Mickels, Ralph R. 

Miller, Thomas W. 

Mummey, Lester R. 

Odom, James 

Owens, Robert 

Palmer, Lee E. 

Paul, Roy E. 

Patrick, Charles E. 

Parks, William R. 

Paxton, George 

Reeves, John H. 

Richardson, Charley 
E. 

Roberts, Edgar T. 

Rose, Thomas 

Ross, Bud 

Ross, Edd 

Sanders, Harry E. 

Schoenherr, Raymond 
C. 

Shoemaker, Gilbert W. 

Siler, Byard 

Slinkard, Charley 

Smith, Archie 
Smith, Ollie 
Smith, Jim 
Stanbery, George E. 
Steel, Pinkey 
Still, James R. 
Stringer, Carl E. 
Sturgeon, Roy 
Swindle, John M. 
Tabor, Dressier 
Thompson, Roy B. 
Vawter, Arthur L. 
Viser, Harry 
Welch, Keefie W. 
West, Earl 
Whitton, Jack 
Wilkerson, John 
Williams, Bruce H. 
Williams, Jim 
Womack, Lionel 
Woodmansee, Leslie 
Woodward, Martin 
Workman, Jesse 
Wright, Claud 



COMPANY K 
Springfield 



Captain, 

Paul A. Frey 
1st Lieutenant, 

Louis E. Eslick 
2nd Lieutenant, 

John H. Helfrecht 



1st Sergeant, 

Edmonson, Walter B. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Hagel, Carl W. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Blain, James R. 



Sergeants : 

Witty, Clifford G. 
Young, Julius V. 
Gates, Curtis B. 
Eslick, Everett 
Gideon, James M. 



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Kelso, Page 

Erickson, Jess 

Gates, Lutie C. 
Corporals : 

Baker, Zell Z. 

Brown, Earl A. 

Farris, Harold 

Gates, Curtle C. 

Hannah, James H. 

King, Emmett 

Langley, William L. 

Puckett, Arthur A. 

Rountree, Ben 

Steele, Walter A. 

Welhoelter, Coulter V. 
Cooks : 

Friedhofen, Pete 

Friedhofen, William 
Musicians : 

Nichols, Harlan H. 

Wright, Leonard A. 
Mechanics : 

Brewer, Chauncey 

Nevatt, William D. 
Privates : 

Acock, Bank C. 

Armstrong, Angus 

Baker, Paul L. 

Bauder, Frank G. 

Bean, George 

Bickford, Elsworth E. 

Boyd, Earl J. 

Branam, Pritchet 

Breedlove, Glenn 

Bringleson, August 

Brooks, Midford F. 

Brookshire, Charles E. 

Brown, Willard J. 

Bruce, John 

Brumfield, Clarence 

Cardwell, Glenn 

Carmen, Ben 

Carter, Clifford 

Carter, Everett 

Gates, Roy L. 

Caudle, James Y. 

Cawlfield, Christopher 



Childers, Lloyd 
Courtney, Bert L. 
Cox, Ira T. 
Christ, Corodon 
Cunningham, Guy 
Cunningham, John K. 
Dawson, Roy L. 
Doe, Everett 
Due, John 
Dyson, Calvin 
Ege, Harry W. 
Eidson, John R. 
Elkins, Cecil 
Elsey, Harry 
EsHnger, Everett 
Evans, William C. 
Farrell, Luther I. 
Gann, Gilbert L. 
Gaylor, James W. 
Goforth, Vincent C. 
Green, Emery 
Green, James E. 
Harris, Cecil 
Hixon, Hubert 
Hollingshad, Fred 
Hufft, Martin J. 
Hughey, Clarence 
Her, Clyde O. 
James, Richard 
Janss, Harold 
Jones, William P. 
Kelin, Howard A. 
Killingsworth, Paul 
Lamb, Charles 
McCutcheon, Oscar K. 
McKenzie, Ralph 
McMahon, Fred R. 
McNabb, Dewey 
Marckel, Harry 
Massey, William S. 
Matthews, Lloyd L. 
May, Silas E. 
Mayers, Cletus 
Mendenhall, Arthur L. 
Miller, Lee W. 
Montague, Benjamin 
F. 



Montague, Carl D. 
Morris, Lawrence 
Morrison, Charles D. 
Nelson, James 
Peck, Fahy 
Peters, Joseph 
Phillips, Warren 
Pickett, Richard 
Plummer, Max B. 
Pranter, Lawrence J. 
Pruess, Kirk F. 
Rainey, Charles 
Ramsey, Harry W. 
Rebori, Ralph 
Richter, Clarence 
Roach, James W. 
Robinett, Charles W. 
Roper, Leon 
Sanders, Claude 
Schwanic, Harvey S. 
Shockley, Howard 
Singleton, William R. 
Skaggs, Budd 
Smades, Arthur L. 
Stevens, William C. 
Stewart, Charles 
Stewart, William B. 
Stokes, Leonard F. 
Swearinger, Cecil 
Thomas, Sidney L. 
Thomas, Vere 
Thompson, Edward 
Turner, Charles 
Turner, Harry 
Tweed, Homer L. 
Wallace, Roy F. 
Weihs, Ray F. 
Weller, John F. 
Whaley, Newton P. 
White, Arthur 
Whitlock, Thomas D. 
Wilkerson, Paul R. 
Williams, Otto F. 
Walton, Walter 
Weaver, Horace 
Whittaker, Albert C. 
Woody, Charles J. 



Captain, 

William S. Moore 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Lee Ruthven 
1st Sergeant, 

Schnell, Roy M. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Betts, George J. 
Sergeants : 

Crutcher, James R. 

Humphrey, Roland O. 



COMPANY L 
Jefferson City 

Corporals: 

Kremer, Earl F. 

Hott, Warner O. 

Engelbrecht, Segel L. 
Cooks : 

Holden, Charles B. 

Tones, John W. 

Schneider, William F 
Mechanic, 

Taake, Martin 
Buglers : 

Prentice, Warren W. 



Bohner, Eugene W. 
Privates : 

Affolter, Alfred 
Allen, Blaine M. 
Amos, Lloyd 
Amos, Virgil C. 
Arnett, Eddie J. 
Asel, Ralph M. 
Bailey, Hamilton A. 
Basnett, Oscar 
Beard, Elmer 
Bennett, Clifford K. 



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Bennie, A. Crittenden 
Bishop, Jule 
Bittick, Hiram Jr. 
Blank, Ralph F. N. 
Booney, Harvey M. 
Bose, Joseph 
Bowlin, Clarence E. 
Boyce, Clarence 
Breen, Clair A. 
Bremerkamp, George 

T. 
Brown, James W. 
Bruner, John H. 
Burchett, Bruce 
Burton, Charles 
Byrd, Edgar 
Camden, Oscar F. 
Cook, William A. 
Cooper, James A. 
Dalley, Donless S. 
Dougherty, McKinley 
Druce, Charles T. 
Dulle, Joseph B. 
Dunn, August V. 
Dunn, Russell B. 
Dunnavant, Joseph C. 
Edgar, Charles 
Kggers, Edward 
English, Clifford 
Enloe, Haywood P. 
Enloe, Robert 
Enloe, Roscoe 
Feig, Emil C. 
Feig, Joseph 
Foster, lyawrence 
Freeman, Perry E. 
Gallitin, Walter S. 
Gardner, Earl 
George, Rufus 
Glavin, William F. 
Gorsuch, Leon M. 
Gragg, Emmett R. 
Graham, Orval 



Green, Ewing G. 
Grisham, John W. 
Grisham, Tom 
Gungoll, Alvin A. 
Haake, Lawrence M. 
Hale, William F. 
Hanie, Ward 
Hartman, George M. 
Hert, Bertram B. 
Hodges, Major W. 
Hubbard, Clarence E. 
Huegel, Thomas J. 
Ingram, Harvey H. 
Jones, Andy J. 
Kiely, John M. 
Kleindienst John R. 
Knife, John 
Lucas, John H. 
Luebbert, Gerard B. 
McDaniel, Joseph 
McGhee, Roy L. 
McGirk, Clyde W. 
McKinley, Joseph W. 
Maginnes, Leo J. 
Maire, Hugo 
Melton. Oscar 
Moir, James W. 
Moore, Earl H. 
Mueller. Wesley H. 
Murray, Christopher 

H. 
Nichols, Luther E. 
Nilges, James R. 
O'Dowd, Austin J. 
O'Dowd, Martin 
Opel, Andrew M. 
Opel, Fred 
Paden, Frank G. 
Parker, Lester F. 
Parker, Roy W. 
Propst, Julius H. 
Rackers, John W. 
Rader, William 



Redtor, Jake F. 

Rice, Samuel F. 

Riner, Charles E. 

Robben, Joseph F. 

Robinson, Roy 

Schell, Norbert C. 

Schrader, Henry C. 

Scott, Charles 

Scrivner, George A. 

Shamel, Leonard W. 

Sheldon, Claude 

Skinner, James G. 

Smallwood, Edwin P. 

Smith, Charles B. 

Smith, John W. 

Snodgrass, Everett B. 

Snodgrass, Leonard 
T. 

Stewart, James S. 

Suggett, John L. 

Taber, Enoch J. 

Taber, Frank P. 

Thee, Victor R. 

Thompson, John W. 

Tyree, Joseph N. 

Upton, John 

Van Eeckhoute, Phil- 
lip 

Vandiver, Clyde 

Wadley, Edward T. 

Wardrip, James E. 

Weeks, Jasper 

Weeks, Ralph M. 

Wheeler, Morris 

White, Lester B. 

Wilson, Norman J. 

Wise, Roy 

Wolverton, Uriel T, 

Wyrick, Clarence 

Wyrick, Ora 

Zeitz, Arthur H, 

Zugmaier, Frank G. 

Zumalt, Vernal E. 



Captain, 

William A. Oglesby 
1st Lieutenant, 

Pierre Grigg 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Ben C. Oglesby 
1st Sergeant, 

Wolf, Hollis M. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Crawford, Raymond 
H. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Wells, Charles B. 
Sergeants : 

McPherson, John V. 

Seburn, Charles C. 



COMPANY M 
Aurora 

Foundray, Frank W. 
Oldaker, Clarence S. 
McPherson, Joe, F. 
Lemaster, Floyd A. 
Corporals: 

Estes, Helser G. 
Raubinger, Floyd B. 
Paschal, Walter J. 
Shipman, Elbert 
Bunch, William T. 
Seburn, Hugh G. 
Reynolds, Roy N. 
Hudson, Bartlett B. 
Rucker, John W. 
Duckworth, William B. 
Hadley, Luther 



Cooks: 

Reid, Clyde S. 

Alexander, Wash N. 

Michael, William H. 
INIechanic, 

Zinn, George 
Musician, 

Parnell, William C. 
1st Class Privates: 

Cook, Murell 

Cook, Ralph H. 

Crawford, Hobart 

Cryderman, John M. 

Drake, Charley C. 

Gee, Leslie 

Hillhouse, William N. 



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Hitt, Osee K. 
Heagerty, Clarence C. 
Jennings, Darrell D. 
McClure, Herbert 
Mason, Joseph H. 
Newcum, Earl 
O'Kelley, Herbert 
Ray, Arch B. 
Shipman, Ray 
Towers, Henry 
Ware, Loyd C. 
Privates : 

Arwood, Riley A. 
Ashens, Ranson J. 

Bailey, Ira E. 

Ballard, Ersell B. 

Bennett, Weaver R. 

Berry, Julian S. 

Beyers, Raymond H. 

Bohanon, Leonard L. 

Bond, William I. 

Brady, Henry W. 

Brown, Joy L. 

Brown, Ralph C. 

Bryant, Will 

Buttry, Charles 

Clopton, Jerry O. 

Cochran, Earl W. 

Cox, Allie H. 

Cummings, Herman 
H. 

Davenport, Walter R. 



Daugherty, Preston 

H. 
Davis, Dutton W. 
Eddington, Claud B. 
Eddington, Earl W. 
Estes, Gifford T. 
Estes, Percy I. 
Flood, Purd 
Ford, Albert H. 
Gaskins, Wirt H. 
Gastineau, Frank R. 
Godard, Ora 
Graber, Samuel A. 
Hall, Floyd W. 
Harvey, Edward M. 
Hicklin, Earl S. 
Hill, James C. 
Holt, Charles B. 
Holt, Frank J. 
Holt, Willie K. 
Hudson, Wesley V. 
Hughes, Albert C. 
Humphreys, Floyd L. 
Johnston, Frank B. 
Jordon, John R. 
Kellog, George K. 
Leffingwell, Roy 
Lemaster, Vernon L- 
Lewis, Earnest B. 
Lewis, Robert E. 
Long, Archie R. 
McKinley, Robert R. 



McPherson, Kenneth 
Miller, Joseph R. 
Miller, lycwis E. 
Miller, Wyatt W. 
Morley, V/illiam E. 
Moungo, James 
Owens, James D. 
Pannel, Troy N. 
Pope, Oliver 
Reid, Guy A. 
Ross, Carl L. 
Ross, Jewel A. 
Rowe, Efton J. 
Sawyer, Norman J. 
Schmideskamp, Harry 

R. 
Sims, John 
Sink, Frank 
Smith, Orlando F. 
Spicer, Benjamin T. 
Stowe, Herman E. 
Swindler, Clayton 
Thomas, Walton J. 
Volpoel, Fred W. 
Walters, Charles W. 
West, Everett J. 
Weatherwax, William 
Williams, Loy R. 
Williamson, Loy A. 
Worth, John J. 
Young, Buford H. 
Zinn, Earnest J. 



SANITARY DETACHMENT 

JOPLIN 



Major, 

Earl H. Welcome 
Captain, 

Harry A. Leaming 
1st Lieutenant, 

William M. Hoel 
1st Lieutenant D. C. 

Barney M. Russel 
1st Lieutenant, 

1st Class Sergeant, 

Loggains, Walter W. 
Sergeant, 

Bassman, George H. 
1st Class Privates: 

Grim, Charley L- 

Hawkins, Roy 



Myers, William C. 
Yeakey, Scott 
Privates : 

Allen, Clifford J. 
Amos, Darwin W. 
Anderson, Clyde M. 
Armstrong, Searcy S. 
Beaman, Orin E. Jr. 
Brackney, Charles H. 
Dawson, Charles PI. 
Gordon, Austin 
Grigg, Edward W. 
Haines, Charlie B. 
Inns, Francis E. 
Ivey, Horace F. 
Keenan, Harry E. 



Long, Sherman D. 
McCune, Charlie F. 
Millsap, Leslie R. 
Morris, Dewey R, 
Moss, Pleasant A. 
Payne, Glen G. 
Phillips, Miles B. 
Richey, Glen T. 
Shannon, Homer H. 
Smith, Thomas T. 
Stevenson, Robert PI. 
Tennyson, Harry C. 
Turner, Roy V. 
Walls, William F. 
Watkins, Vincent L. 



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FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY 

FIELD AND STAFF 
St. Joseph 



Colonel, 

John D. McNeely, 
Commanding 

Major, 

Clay C. Macdonald 



Major, 

James E. Rieger. 
Major, 

William D. Stepp 
1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 

Donald M. Macdonald 



1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
James H. McCord, Jr. 

1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
Guss B. Ridge 



HEADQUARTEES COMPANY 

St. Joseph 



Captain & Adjt. 

Walter M. Mann 
Rgt. Sgt. Mayor 

Graham, Charles W., 
Jr. 
Band Leader, 

Maulding, Harold E. 
Bn. Sgt. Major, 

Schmitz, Joseph O. 
Bn. Sgt. Major, 

Mills, Charles B. 
Bn. Sgt. Major, 

Allen, William A. 
1st Sergeant, 

Phipps, Ezra 
Sgt. Bugler, 

Porter, George E. 
Color Sergeants : 

Holley, Francis J. 

Van Brunt, Frederick 
C. 
Sergeant, 

Lavelle, John 
Supply Sergeant, 

King, Herman B. 
Mess Sergeant, 

McMahon, James R. 



Stable Sergeant, 

Steland, Francis A. 
Band Sergeants : 

Atherton, William H. 

Mitchel, Sam W. 
Band Corporals: 

Ballard, Cleo L- 

Canon, Leon 

Weeks, Irving H. 
Cooks : 

Tarpley, Carl H. 

Maffit, CalUp J. 
Horseshoer, 

Madden, John L- 
1st Class Musicians: 

Blair, Russell William 

Milbourne, William 
2nd Class Musicians : 

Evans, Roy Albert 

Smith, Merville O. 

Spraul, D. Nevell 

Woodard, Bert F. 
3rd Class Musicians : 

Bramble, WilUam O. 

Buhler, Henry 

Corum, Glenn 

Daily, William F. 

Eicher, Ben 



George, Carl J. 
Rmman, Erville C, 
Sproul, Arthur C. 
Stafford, Robbins 
Vert, Orville E. 
Wallace, Charles W. 
Wagers, Newcomb C. 
1st Class Privates: 
Connett, Carroll 
Lindensmith, Arthur 

S. 
Miller, Charles C. 
Spencer, Jack 
Privates : 

Bear, James D. 
Channel, Floyd V. 
Ennis, Everett B, 
Gilbert, Clark O. 
Glaze, Walter C. 
Hopkins, Woodworth 

N. 
Johnson, Karl 
Lange, Karl H. 
McCord, Charles P. 
Meyers, Ferdinand W. 

Jr. 
Welty, Charles 
White, Byron T. 



Captain, 

Charles J. Hall 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Arthur F. Amick 
Rgt. Sup. Sergeants: 

Donnell, Calvin 

Kennedy, Leo J. 

Martin, Rulif M. 
1st Sergeant, 

Zacharias, Frederick 
Mess Sergeant, 

Hall, Albert M. 



SUPPLY COMPANY 

St. Joseph 

Stable Sergeant, 

Wade, Harry H. 
Corporal 

McCutchen, Robert J. 
Horseshoer, 

Blake, Martin 
Saddler, 

Applebee, Amos W. 
Cook, 

Sparks, George W. 
Wagoners: 

Bailey, Don K 

Barnes, Eddie A. 



Bodle, Hugh 
Byer, Walter J. 
Carter, Arthur R. 
Carter, Frank F. 
Casselman, Gideon 
Corum, Roy J. 
Cummings, Charles C. 
Deerfoot, Richard 
Denton, Robert Henry 
Duncan, Roy P. 
Fennell, Jesse A. 
Gerlach, Philip 



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Keener, Arthur F. 
Letcher, Fred 
Lovejoy, Daniel 
Lowe, George 



Maxwell, Joseph L. 
Montgomery, George 

M. 
PuUem, Emerald A. 



Rossie, Charles 
Smoot, Charles S. 
Stevens, William H. 
Wilson, Jefferson W. 



MACHINE GUN COMPANY 
Sedalia 



Captain, 

William F. Logan 
1st Lieutenant, 

Walter A. Wood. 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Joseph L. Darr 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Farl G. Pitts 
1st Sergeant, 

Meriwether, Philip S. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Rose, Frederick G. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Barnett, Lawrence 
Stable Sergeant, 

Schneider, Charley H. 
Sergeants : 

Nelson, William A. 

Miles, Marvin 

McCabe, Russell E. 

Elton, Roscoe R. 

Jared, Marvin W. 

Holland, Carl E. 

Telford, Allen F. 
Horseshoer, 

Smith, Luther M. 
Corporals : 

Lambirth, Harry N. 

Elkins, Walter E. 

Urban, Carl F. 

Wheeler, Frederick H. 



Codding, Almeron B. 

Cunningham, William 
D. 

Greer, Elmer 
Cooks : 

Wright, Benjamin C. 

Withrow, Floyd T. 
Mechanics : 

Creegan, Marvin J. 

Cone, Albert B. 
Buglers: 

Cleveland, William 

Starr, Joseph A. 
1st Class Privates: 

Baum, Leonard H. 

Croy, William C. 

Greene, Albert L. 

Lasiter, Ora Z. 

Long, Chester S. 

Norris, Willard M. 

Overby, Dick R. 

Reed, Nolan P. 

Shackles, Pete 

Sibert, Harvey L. 

Withrow, Jessie W. 

Wood, Clarence R. 
Privates : 

Bennett, Ray E. 

Doyle, Vander 

Dufif, Allen E. 



Duff, Ernest M. 
Englund, Lawrence N. 
Farin, Charles J. 
Ford, Roy V. 
Franklin, Forrest C. 
Glover, Charles C. 
Good, Thaddeus B. 
Henderson, Bert E. 
Henderson, Robert C. 
Jackson, Dan S. 
Lessley, John T. 
MacCurdy, Clyde E. 
Marshall, Charles E. 
Mitchell, Frederick S. 
Nelson, William K. 
Nicholson, Jay 
Reimler, Charles W. 
Rich, Guy W. 
Russell, Benjamin C. 
Sibert, Ernest L. 
Simpich, Joseph S. 
Smith, Louis E. 
Strain, Edgar D. 
Temple, Oliver T. 
Thomas, Leo R. 
Wagner, Antone F. 
Warren, John W. 
Wilson, Earl K. 
Witte, William M. 
Wood, Estle 



Captain, 

Thomas E. Herridge 
1st Lieutenant, 

Morris H. Hall, Jr. 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Homer Yale 
1st Sergeant, 

Guthrie, Belt D. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Shandy, George P. 
Sergeants : 

Nichols, Irvin 

Cheesman, William M. 

Cheesman, Theodore 

Morgan, William O. 

Henson, Jason 

Hanni, Warner 

Judkins, Cecil 

Vinyard, Jess 



COMPANY A 

Tarkio 

Corporals: 

Carter, Daniel 

Hurst, Millard 

Bennett, Jess 

Hall, Harvey 

Harmon, Fred 

Leigh, Lee 

McElfish, Earl E. 

Neal, Harry 

Welsh, John 
Cooks: 

Medley, Owen W. 

Carroll, Daniel 
Buglers: 

Searcy, Alvie 

Duncan, Paul 
Alechanics : 

Farley, Grover 

Vernon, Joseph F. 



1st Class Privates: 
Benedict, Harry 
Berg, Earl 
Blatter, Berghold 
Cartwright, Claude 
Chambers, Lyle 
Crosley, Oral E. 
Gunderson, Fred 
Henson, Everett C. 
Henson, Lloyd 
Hull, William 
McNeal. Glen 
Meek, Charley 
Mowery, Mearl 
Mutchler, Harry 
Ross, William 
Scott, Abner 
Stebbins, Chancey 
Traub, William 



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Wheeler, Fred 
Withrow, Floyd 
Wood, William J. 
Wrinkle, Ola K. 
Yale, Walter 
Privates : 

Ages, Arthur 'L,. 
Allen, Lee W. 
Allen, Sylvester 
Anderson, Charles 
Anderson, Fred 
Anderson, Jesse 
Bennett, Fdward 
Bragg, Harley W. 
Bratcher, Jean 
Brown, Paul 
Brumback, David 
Carter, Frank A. 
Chaney, David 
Chaney, Roscoe 
Clanton, Thomas 
Clark, Allen Glen 
Coon, William D. 
Cooper, Amos C. 
Davis, Edgar 
Deboard, Frank 
Dodge, Kmery 
Donelson, Dean 
Dougall, Don A. 
Dragoo, Carl 
Dragoo, Dale 
Kdminston, Robert S. 
Farley. Clyde 



Farley, Russell L. 
Farris, Otha 
Farris, John 
Foley, Harry 
Friend, James O. 
Fry, Lester V. 
Gailey, Bert 
Garrett, Ralph L. 
Gleason, Walter 
Gossard, Benjamin 
Gray, Merle 
Green, William 
Griffin, Willie 
Harmon, Claud 
Harsh, Cecil 
Henson, Caston 
Hicks, Luther 
Hogue, Robert G. 
Jackson, William W. 
Jones, James 
Judkins, Carl 
Judkins, Herchel 
Judson, Arlie 
Kelley, Olin F. 
Lindley, Robert H. 
Lucas, Chester F. 
McAdams, Merle 
McFlfish, John 
McElfresh, Ralph 
McNeal, Joseph 
McNeil, Harry 
Marshall, Irvin 



Moore, Homer 
Morgan, Perry Lee 
Mozingo, Ora 
Mueller, Fred 
Plummer, Charlie 
Powell, Amos 
Puckett, Fmmett 
Renfro, Farl F. 
Richards, Ben 
Richards, John 
Robinson, Jasper C. 
Roby, Charley 
Samak, Josef 
Sanders, Charley 
Schiffern, Roy 
Sharp, Nuell 
Simmons, Thomas 
Smith, Herman 
Snoderly, Demel 
Snodgrass, Ernest L. 
Stone, Roy 
Sunday, Clarence 
Tabler, Claude L. 
Thompson, Douglas 
Turner, Harry 
Walker, Worlie M. 
Warner, Millard 
Warren, Fred 
Werl, Herman 
Woolhether, Lawrence 

A. 
Yale, William 
Zeiner, Ellwood 



Captain, 

William B. Hitchcock 
1st Lieutenant, 

Victor T. Malloure 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Harry E. Malloure 
1st Sergeant, 

Culpepper, Henry Gra- 
dy 
Mess Sergeant, 

Newberry, Walter F. 
Sergeants: 

Logsdon, Shirley 

Kennedy, John L- 

Miles, George 
Corporals: 

Cecil, Clarence C. 

Hall, Edmond W. 

Langley, Joseph 

Roberts, Herbert R. 

Smith, William W. 

Vance, Clayborne 
Cooks: 

Citius. Henry L. 

Darnell, William B. 



COMPANY B 

Caruthersville 

Mechanics: 

Craiglow, John H. 

1st Class Privates: 
Davis, Culbert E. 
Edwards. Willie 
Ingram, Joseph 
Knight, Dan R. 
McCallum, John L. 
McGhee, Robert L. 
Sutton, Wilbert L. 

Privates: 

Abernathy, Cleburn 
Adams, Carl 
Adams, Shelby 
Ayers, Richard 
Bailey, Cliff 
Ballinger, Henry 
Baynes, John W. 
Bennett, Curtiss, 
Billington, Allen 
Bird, Arley 
Black, Jesse 
Brock, Audie G, 
Brown, Homer 
Browning, Herbert 
Buckley, Huston H. 



Burton, Lonzo 
Burton, Robert L. 
Byrd, Lawrence 
Cameron. Vernon 
Carlton, Guy W. 
Chaney, Leo 
Clifton, Amos N. 
Cratty, Ollie 
Creason, Hardy 
Creason, James 
Dark, Stanley 
Dickerson, Oscar 
Douglas, John J, 
Douglas, Shelton F. 
Dupeck, Albert 
Edwards, Thomas R. 
Esters, Lexie C. 
Evans, Nathaniel 
Ferrell, Scott G. 
Foster, Clarence 
Foster, John W. 
Gallion, Ruff 
GilHliland, Gilbert L. 
Goff, George 
Hall, Harry 
Ham, William 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Hardin, John 
Harper, Lynn 
Harris, Owen 
Herndon, Charles Jt,. 
Hillard. Clark H. 
Holder, James R. 
Holmes, Clyde E. 
Hooper, Doyle L. 
Hooper, Herbert 
Howell, Thalmage C. 
Jenkins, Loyd 
Jennings, Carl 
Jennings Hall 
Johnson, Fred W. 
Johnson, Robert L. 
Kelley, Fred 
Knight, James 
Lamb, Edward 
Lawrence, Melvin C. 
Lewis, Henry C. 
Little, George A. 
Loyd, Arthur 
McArthur, Floyd F. 
McDaniel, Cecil 
McDaniel, Hillary F. 
McGowan, Paul 
Madax, Bennie 



Malin, Delmar R. 
Marcus, Elmer 
Marshall, Oliver D. 
Marley, James J. 
Maxey, Shirley 
Mayfield, Floyd C. 
Millikan, Loyd P. 
Moore, Clarence 
Murphy, Jesse 
Neal, Lawrence C. 
Nolen, Henry 
Newberry, Jesse L. 
Parker, Lawrence J. 
Pepple, Joseph W. 
Perkins, Dale D. 
Powell, Odis L. 
Price, William A. 
Pride, Frank 
Ray, Huey Y. 
Rinehart, Russ 
Roberts, Frank 
Rogers, Samuel J. 
Rogers, Virgil L, 
Rolfe, Harry E. 
Rushing, Herman H. 
Russell, Willard P. 



Scott, Rollo 
Severn, Arnold 
Shepard, John W. 
Shilley, Carl 
Smith, Shirley W. 
Southern, Robert 
Southern, Walter 
Spencer, Marshall R. 
Stout, Connie L. 
StreiflF, John P. 
Terrell, John W. 
Terror, Joseph D, 
Thornsberry, Marvin 
Tinsley, George 
Tysus, Robert E. 
Ursery, Frank 
Walker, Fred A. 
Ware, John H. 
Warren, Carl D. 
Watts, Chester 
Wells, Mervin 
Whitson, Thomas L. 
Wilbanks, Arthur 
Wilbanks, Jack W. 
Woolbanks, Jack W. 
Woolbright, Everett 



COMPANY C 

KlRKSVILLE 



Captain, 

Jasper Newton Gates 
1st Lieutenant, 

Raymond W. Cater 
2d Lieutenant, 

John D. Heiny, 
1st Sergeant, 

Peterson, John M. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Turner, Ben E. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Fergason, Stephen 
Sergeants, 

McDougal, Hubert 

Moon, Frank B. 

Fiscus, Ray 

McKeenan, Carl E. 

Hardester, Orbie 

Wood, Oliver F. 

Brasfield, Orrin 
Corporals, 

Durham, Earl 

Fisher, Ernest W. 

Wimber, Van 

Collins, Elmer L. 

Crawford, Charles 

Eggert, Ralph 

Glynn, Derby 

Piersee, Charlie 

Conley, James W. 

Winn, William 

Crawford, Henry F. 



Daul, John F. 

Bennett, Alva 

Lowe, Mannie M. 

Martin, Earl D. 
Cooks, 

Piersee, Wesley B, 

Standforth, David V. 
Mechanics, 

Dowis, Carl C. 
Buglers, 

Paschal, Luther 

Howey, Earl W. 
1st Class Privates: 

Barnett, Edgar 

Bozarth, Allen 

Burris, Ross S. 

Darnell, Pearl 

Denton, Manuel S. 

Foster, Earl 

Haines, Harry 

Hilt, Byrl J. 

Horton, Tames L. 

Kent, William H. 

Kidd, James E. 

Loder, John L. 

Miles, Lloyd B. 

Pinkerton, Joseoh J. 

Rubin, Leroy E. 

Runvon, Irwin M. 

Rutherford. Joe R. 

Shumate, George E. 

Thomas, George E. 



Weaver, Ben T. 
Wright, Mike 
Wyatt, John O. 
Young, Ferron G. 
Privates: 

Abbott, Avery 
Adams, Frank 
Bailey, Kenneth 
Barnes, William 
Beall, Ora O. 
Boling, Worthy G. 
Bookout, H. John 
Brown, Lawrence E. 
Caswell, Albert R. 
Chapman, William A. 
Chancellor, Clarence 
Chrisman, William 
Cole, John B. 
Commack, Ralph 
Conkin, Lowern W. 
Cooper, Glen 
Cowgill, Isaac M. 
Danes, James W. 
Dawdy, Leslie D. 
Deaton, Walter P. 
Denton, George C. 
Denton, Samuel R. 
Dupree, Wallace 
England, Glen W. 
Evans, Irwin 
Fickel, Roy E. 
Foster, Orrin L. 



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Foutch, David C. 
Gardner, Lloyd F. 
Gardner, Orville L. 
Gates, Alfred L. 
Gatts, Chester A. 
Grear, Glen 
Grear, Ora B. 
Griswold, Levi W. 
Hampton, Earl 
Hatfield, Marcus H. 
Hayes, Bryce L. 
Hayes, Harlin W. 
Kaup, Harrison L. 
Kent, Claude J. 
Leas, Clyde A. 
Little, Lewis 
McDowell, Tony 
Miller, Ralph 



Montgomery, Earl 
Mountain, Delbert 
Nickels, Harry M. 
Oliver, Fay E. 
Osborne, Raymond N. 
Parcell, Wayne E. 
Paris, Alva R. 
Phillips, Ora 
Plemmons, Thomas D. 
Potter, Ray 
Reynolds, George W. 
Rhodes, Carl 
Robinson, Levy C. 
Saunders, Clinton J. 
Selasbery, Dave 
Shelton, Irwin 
Shinafelt, Ok. 
Singley, Charley N. 



Singley, Riley E- 
Skaggs, Roy 
Springs, Ray E. 
Stahl, Earl L. 
Styles, Herald E. 
Summers, Richard 
Sutton, Ernest 
Talbot, Aubert 
Talbot, Hubert 
Thompson, Edgar 
Thompson, George H, 
Unfer, Louis 
Webber, Thomas 
Wellbaum. Fredie O, 
Wellman. Elba E. 
White, Ralph P. 
^Vinn, William C. 
Zimmerman, Ora 



Captain, 

William C. Williamson 
1st Lieutenant, 

Gus S. Gehlbach 
2d Lieutenant, 

Homer B. Loman 
1st Sergeant, 

McArtor, Paul E. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Gehlbach, Albert R. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Hyten, Bea. F. 
Sergeants: 

Han, Lloyd R. 

Whitten, James M. 

Axtell, Dale 

Grant, Horatio 

Crain, Frank J. 

Barnes, Henry E. 

Miller, Milton R. 
Corporals : 

Gardner, Elza P. 

Wise, Zina L- 

Davis, Ralph A. 

Swepston, Melvin 

Mabe, Luther B. 

McCoy, Floyd 

Millett, Samuel 

Pettigrew, John R. 

Mapes, William M. 

Hemmingway, Wm, B. 

Bofman, James E. 

McLaughlin, Floyd P. 

Moss, Wilber D. 

Moss, Eugene R. 

Simpson, William J. 

Tittsworth, Lemuel N. 

Jones, Bernice L. 
Cooks: 

Payne, Robert H. 

Millett, George 



COMPANY D 

Trenton 

Buglers: 

Heins, Roy M. 

Kirk, Norman 
Mechanics: 

Branson, William E. 
1st Class Privates: 

Boon, Presley 

Boyle, William A. 

Burrill, Forrest C. 

Collier, John W. 

Collier, Woodson E. 

Collins, Alva R. 

Craig, Lloyd 

Daniels, Claudis D. 

Dennis, Henry D. 

Evans, Farrol E. 

Gentry, Carl C. 

Gott, Loyd 

Graham, Leon O. 

King, Harry E. 

McKinney, Henry 

Miller, Claude E. 

Morgan, Cecil D. 
1st Class Privates: 

Morris, Clarence E. 

Morris, Thomas B. 

Nelson, John E. 

Pettibon, Edgar H. 

Richards, William J. 

Snyder, Clarence 

Tittsworth, James L. 

Tomilson, J. C. 

Walton, Edward 

Ward, Ariel C. 
Privates: 

Allnutt, Granville 

Ansel, Frank 

Bennett, Norman F. 

Booher, Charles T. 

Boone, Audry 



Bowling, Thomas 
Brafett, Melvin 
Bridges, Hubert C. 
Brown, Hurshell L. 
Burke, William H. 
Butler, Fred 
Carter, Russell 
Clark, Homer J. 
Cottrell, Harry L. 
Cram, Harry H. 
Culver, James E. 
Darnaby, Harold M. 
Day, Vane S. 
Dean, Roland E. 
Dean, Virgil 
Dennis, Lafayette D. 
DeVaul, Bailey C. 
Dority, Arthur D. 
Doyle, James E. 
Dragoo, Leonard R. 
Dunn, Wilbur E. 
Ellington, Earl J. 
Ellington, Lewis 
Foster, Corwin F. 
Franklin, Goldie I. 
Franklin, William J. 
French, Lawrence L. 
Gann, Harvey C. 
George, Hubert H. 
Gardner, Ola W. 
Gillett, Donnie W. 
Grandstaff, Lowell 
Grant, Loyd 
Griffin, Delbert 
Grubb, Carl F. 
Haldeman. Oscar 
Halden. Paul F. 
Hall, William H. 
Hall, Winscon S. 
Harrelson, Clarence 
Hatfield, Verne J. 



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Holloway, Lawrence 

M. 
House, Roy F. 
Huff, Harry C. 
Huffman, Charles O. 
Husted, Earl H. 
Ingersoll, Hutlett P. 
Lowe, Lee Roy 
Lucas, Homer D. 
McAuHff, Joseph E. 
McCoy, Martin G. 
McMullin, Cecil O. 
Mackley, Guy E. 
Miller, Curtis 
Mitchell, Guy 
Munn, Carroll T>. 



O'Fallon, George L. 
Parker, Dale 
Powell, Charles S. 
Prosser, Albert Neil 
Pugh, Guy O. 
Richards, Frank 
Rogers, Forrest 
Rooks, Glen 
Rulon, Wood 
Sandlin, Cleo L. 
Schweppe, Edward L. 
Shea, Daniel B. 
Shelton, Frank M. 
Simpson, Robert E. 
Smith, Robert H. 
Snyder, James R. 



Snyder, William H. 
Sperry, Clifford F. 
Steele, Jefferson H. 
Stevenson, Herbert L. 
Stringer, Clyde L. 
Tate, Alva R. 
Thickston, Lovell J. 
Thogrmartin, Quincy 

E. 
Thompson, Jesse E. 
Vance, Clifford L. 
Ward, Harry D. 
Webster, Alva E. 
Whorton, Cleo 
Williams, Robert R. 
Witten, Ralph 



Captain, 

Karl C. Bostwick 
1st Lieutenant, 

William H, McDonald 
2d Lieutenant, 

James R. Paynter, Jr. 
1st Sergeant, 

Gould, Jesse R. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Yheulon, Harry 
Sergeants : 

Price, Ralph L. 

Yakes, Marvin 
Corporals : 

Rupert, Harry L. 

Lake, Stephen 

Sparks, Lee 

Roland, Claude 

Moss, Leroy 
Cooks : 

Slaughter, Albert 

Griggs. Walter M. 
1st Class Privates: 

Burkhardt. William 

Hayes, Ellwood 

Ehret, Seraphine 

O'Brian, Earl R. 

Paulas, Lester W. 

Renner, Fred 

Sexton, Jim F. 

Sigler, Bryan 

Stout, Henry H. 

Winner, Jesse B. 

Woodyard, Wesley M. 
Privates : 

Ashley, Melvin 

Barbee, Gleason 

Barnes, Otto H. 

Barrett, Carl F. 

Bastian. George 

Bates, Eaf. 

Bauer, John A. 

Beal, Charley 



COMPANY E 
Hannibal 

Beal, Clarence E. 
Bell, Ernest L. 
Bellowes, Everett 
Blackburn, Guy R. 
Bowen, Clarence 
Branham, George W. 
Branstetter, Jean 
Brassell, Benjamin F. 
Briscoe, Orval B. 
Brown, Clarence 
Broxton, George V. 
Buchanan, James L. 
Butler, James W. 
Cartwright, John 
Chouinard, Alexander 

Cissell, Harry B. 
Clancy, George 
Clifton, Clyde 
Cole, William T. 
Connelly, James E. 
Cornelius, Arthur D. 
Gulp, Henry F. 
Curtis, Samuel D. 
Danner, Arthur 
Davis, Leo 
Davis, Tom E. 
Dennison, Charles 
Dunklin, Clarence M. 
Dunklin, George R. 
Eaton, Homer 
Enslen, Roscoe 
Epley, Roy H. 
Fessenden, Harry A. 
Foerstner, George C. 
Fox, Layton V. 
Franklin, Marley 
Gains, Henry L. 
Givan, Raymond 
Gordon, Ray 
Gregory, Fred H. 
Hager, John W. 
Hagerman, William F. 



Haggerty, James W. 
Hampton, Everett I. 
Harbert, Hugh P. 
Harden, John 
Hooper, Othal L. 
Hoskins, Willie A. 
Hudson, George 
Hyler, Normal 
Jeffres, Lloyd 
Jennings, Ernest P. 
Jones, Howard 
Jones, Troy 
Kiess, George R. 
King, Homer G. 
King, William A. 
Lane, George 
Lawson, Jesse 
Lee, Greenleaf W. 
Lewis, Milton H. 
Long, William H. 
Lowe, Ray 
McAdams, William 
McArthur, James L. 
McDonald, Frank 
Marshall, George E. 
Martin, Edward 
Martin, Onie 
Mason, Albert J. 
Mason, Emmett 
Miller, Paul R. 
Miner, Henry E. 
Miner, Ollie 
Mines, Louis W. 
Moody, Charles A. 
Murray, Jesse E. 
Murray, John T. 
Nelson, Nels T. 
Noble, Burl M. 
O'Hern, George E. 
Paul, Russell B. 
Pettitt, Harvey R. 
Phillips, Clifford 
Pierce, Charles H. 



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Piper, Clifford 
Porter, William D. 
Prather, Finis B. 
Reed, Cecil J. 
Reid, Coney 
Reid, James H. 
Rhodes, Hezekiah 
Riley, George I. 
Roach, Delbert B. 
Robb, Ashel 
Robb. Cecil 



Robertson, Irwin B. 
Saben, John, Jr. 
Salyer, Grover C. 
Settles, Oscar 1,. 
Shobe, Aubrey 
Siedler, Warren A. 
Simms, Joseph D. 
Stewart, Joe 
Simmer, Claud 
Tate, Alfred 



Taylor, Raymond 
Troutt, Edward C. 
Via, Melvin B. 
Webb, Roscoe 
Webster, Wesley 
Welker, Glenn D. 
Welker, Harry D. 
West, Harvey 
Whitlock, William T. 
Willett, Robert N. 
Wood, Max C. 



Captain, 

Ashbury Roberts 
1st Lieutenant, 

William E). Galligan 
2d Lieutenant, 

George H. Klinkerfuss 
1st Sergeant, 

Norris, Henry T. 
Sergeants: 

Warne, Charles T. 

Sweeney, Arthur C. 

McGilton, George J, 

Cole, Virgil B. 

Ingels, Giltner R, 

Hulen, Harold A. 

Maring, Wilbur F. 

Calvert, John F. 

Fisher, Frederick K. 
Corporals : 

Shaw, William H. 

Harris, Earl 

Payne, William W., 
Jr. 

Strickler, Dudley D. 

Tipple, Franklin A. 

Daggs, Jackson A. 

Fay, James Conley 

Hickman, John 

Scofield, Benjamin F. 

Roberts, Frank F. 

Rosegren, Alfred T. 

Harshbarger, Ned P. 

Ketchum, Frank W, 

Mullins, George 

Moore, George L. 

Butler, Roy E. 
Cooks: 

Oliver, Clyde W. 

Richardson, Fernie F. 

Griggs, James H, 
Buglers: 

Osterloh, Charles F. 

Oliver, Charles L. 
Mechanics: 

Robnett, James O. 

Lynch, Claud L. 
1st Class Privates: 

Adamson, Murl P. 

Bell, Beverly R. 



COMPANY F 
Columbia 

Berkbile, Judson E. 
Berrey, James W., Jr. 
Brown, John L. 
Coleman, Charles D. 
Connelly, George T. 
Cooper, Frank J. 
Douglas, Lewis 
Ferguson, Harold E. 
Hall, Leon C. 
Harris, Joe W. 
Hetzler, Leo F. 
House, Carl 
Hume, Ernest P. 
Jones, Russell F. 
Lewis, Clarence 
Mayes, Harrison 
Neil, Leonard L. 
Petty, Frank S. 
Reeder, Stuart 
Ruether, Gustave A. 
Smith, Marion W. 
Tyliski, Joseph R. 
Vaughan, Otis P. 
Warden, Hubert P., 

Jr. 
Watson, Ernest F. 
Wood, Cleland 
Privates : 

Altmiller, Roy C. 
Armstrong, Bennie 
Ashurst, Raymond M. 
Barger, Jesse W. 
Barnes, Henry H. 
Beckley, Sherman D. 
Benit, Charles R. 
Berry, James H., Jr. 
Brown, John L. 
Buckbee, John S. 
Bundy, Bert F. 
Burgess, Garrett D. 
Campbell, John W. 
Carrington, Oscar V, 
Caruthers, John 
Coleman, Carl 
Craft, John M. 
Crist, Angelo 
Daly, Everett E. 
De Tarnette, Felix N. 
Elder, Jesse B. 



England, Kenton 
Fisher, Roy E. 
Garrett, Ralph L. 
Grafford, James A. 
Griggs, James N. 
Griggs, Louis C. 
Hall, Howard S. 
Hartley, Luther A. 
Hulen, Amos B. 
Kassaros, Jim 
Kite, John 
Knox, Fred 
Lamboy, Tommie J. 
Largent, Thomas B, 
Lawrence, James W. 
McAlpin, Wilford 
McCasky. Russell D, 
McDaniel, Baylis G. 
McGhee, Edward L. 
Melloway, Frank 
Montague, Harry A. 
Morris, Earl B. 
Nichols, Noah L. 
Norman, Clyde C. 
Ogier, Leon 
Palmer, Bryan L. 
Patrick, James W. 
Reed, Arlie R. 
Reilly, Mark B. 
JRiggs, Young E. 
Ross, Mervin G. 
Sapp, Wilbur 
Scbnabel, Charles F, 
Schnabel, Loran J. 
Scott, Fred J. 
Shearer, Edward F. 
Smith, Jesse R. 
Snow, Julian B. 
Tennyson, Ewell C. 
Tilley, Hoyt G. 
Vaughn, Lloyd E. 
Waters, John J. 
White, Dudley H. 
Williams, Benjamin F. 
Williams, Herbert C. 
Woods, John F. 
Young, Herbert O. 
Zumalt, Martin W. 
Zumalt, Roy P. 



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Captain, 

Randall Wilson 
1st Lieutenant, 

Arthur A. Axline 
2d Lieutenant, 

Carlisle, R. Wilson 
1st Sergeant, 

Buis, Ray L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Cowan, Robert H. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Tobias, Omer M. 
Sergeants: 

Hardy, Lloyd E. 

Dillon, Oscar N. 

Ballard, Russell J. 

Bryant, George W. 

Walker, Jackson E. 
Corporals: 

Higgins, Fred 

Burgin, Bayard Tilden 

Hollar, Everett R. 

Oliver, Laben C. 

Henry, Harley 

Scott, Robert D. 

Tobias. John B, 
Cooks: 

Moore, Ora G. 

Mitchell, James H. 
Buglers: 

Yeater, Glen 

Johnson, Ercelle W. 
Mechanic, 

King, Ben 
1st Class Privates: 

Duncan, Frank 

Fruit, Orval 

Maize, John, Jr. 
Privates : 

Alexander, Frank J. 

Anderson, Glen 

Baker, David L. 

Baker, Lou E. 

Baker, Orval 

Banks, Harvey J. 

Barnes, Scott 

Bivens, George W. 

Bragg, Pearl 

Braley, Elige 

Carmer, Roy 

Carter, Charley M. 

Chittim, James M. 



COMPANY G 

Bethany 

Collins, Harley L. 
Cordle, William M. 
Creek, Thomas 
Dale, Joseph D. 
Darby, Alva 
Davis, George M. 
Dinsmore, Herman L. 
Dolon, Lee 
Dolon, Olney B. 
Estep, James K. 
Flint, Paul O. 
Fowler, Clyde L. 
Franklin, John H. 
Gale, Russell K. 
Garrett, Ray B. 
Gibler, Forest S. 
Glidewell, Lee S. 
Goodrich, Francis S. 
Gray, Jay A. 
Gregory, Paul A. 
Grindstaff,' Arthur F. 
Hall, John G. 
Harris, Cecil 
Harris, James 
Harris, Otto P. 
Harrelson, George R. 
Hauber, Joseph M. 
Henry, James L. 
Hiatt, John D. 
High, William A. 
Hobbs, Roy V. 
Hogan, Jerdie 
Holliday, Elgin K. 
Holliday, George T. 
Hollon, Raymond E. 
Hoselton, Emerson 
Ishmael, Clarence 
Johnson, Clarence M. 
Johnson, Nicholas W. 
Kinder, William F. 
Larson, Edwin E. 
Leslie, Joseph P. 
Long, Leo. G. 
McDaniel, Cecil G. 
McNutt, George W. 
McNutt, Leo E. 
Manor, John D. 
Marsh, Willie D. 
Meek, Byron 
Mersman, John 
Meyers. Richard L. 
Micheal. Elmer A. 
Montgomery, Earl 
Morgan, Joseph D. 



Morris, Edward 
Mullinex, Gurney F. 
Nelson, James V. 
Odam, Wilbur C. 
Opdyke, Ted 
Painter, Melvin H. 
Parks, Lemiel A. 
Payne, Cail 
Poe, Clarence C. 
Powell, John W. 
Rardin, Paul 
Richardson, Melvin N. 
Rogers, William M. 
Sallee, Ernest 
Sears, Claude E. 
Shelton, Sam 
Shipps, Thomas C. 
Siddens, John L. 
Sims, Eddie 
Six, Willie 
Smith, Wren 
Smothers, Ward M. 
Spake, James 
Standlea, William M. 
Stanton, John T. 
Stephen, John S. 
Stephenson, Roy E. 
Stevenson, Floyd E. 
Stewart, Richard H. 
Strait, Noel 
Stuart, Pearson D. 
Stuflflebean, Claude M. 
Stufflebean, Dewey A. 
Sutton, Herbert D. 
Tipton, Albert 
Tipton, James E. 
Tobias, Vernon H. 
Vanhoozer, Carl V. 
Veach, Jess 
Vedch, Robert 
Wade, Dewey 
Wattenbarger, James 

C. 
Wattenbarger, Verna 

E. 
Weese, Walter P. 
West, Floyd 
Wightman, Edwin S. 
Wilkinson, Levi C. 
Willis, Hugh 
Wilson, Charley C. 
Wood. Lemuel 
Yardley, Marshall G. 
Yoakum, Louis G. 



Captain, 
Joseph W. McQueen 



COMPANY H 

Carrollton 

1st Lieutenant, 
Dyer Brown 



2d Lieutenant, 
Ralph H. Cox 



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1st Sergeant, 

Standley, Fred J. 
Mes5 Sergeant, 

Arnold, George W. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Franke, August J. 
Sergeants: 

Parkins, Ray F. 

Kassens, Frank H. 

Hanna, Max, 

Conley, Fverett L. 

Wagner, Rudolph C. 

Cochran, Robert A, 
Corporals: 

Wright, Cyrus H, 

Parkins, William S. 

Parkins, Charlie B. 

I/asser, Edward F. 

Frazier, Joseph L. 

McCormick, Wharton 
J. 

O'Neill, Clarence F, 

Vance, Farl 

Boschert, Leo 

Bucholz, Charlie 

Rosell, Darrell R. 

Vinyard, Roscoe R. 

Sparks, Bert F. 

Hudson, David K. 
Cooks: 

Adkins, Oliver P. 

Conley, John W., Jr. 

Weaver, Robert S. 
Buglers: 

Proffitt, Charles R. 

Helm, Curtiss S. 
Mechanics: 

Young, Roscoe D. 

Starr, John R. 
1st Class Privates: 

Adkins, Ira 

Dooley, Carl 

Fulcher, Charles L. 

Koontz, Sam F. 

Magee, Ernest 

Singleton, Walter R. 

Snodgrass, John W. 

Templeton, William A. 
Privates: 

Adcock, Herman A. 

Adkins, Charlev 

Adkins. Robert" O. 



Albrecht, Edmond C. 

F. 
Auwarter, Floyd D. 
Baker, Roy O. 
Bales, Charles G. 
Barrier, Hugh A. 
Bates, Murl L. 
Best. Earl P. 
Brotherton, Lewis F. 
Brouddus, Rexy 
Burroughs, Charles 
Calvert, John W. 
Carter, George B. 
Caton, William J. 
Charles, Luther A. 
Cobbs, Elmer W. 
Cole, Frank A. 
Coles, Harry E. 
Collier, James E. 
Collier, William S. 
Collins, Sammy 
Conner, Walter 
Correll, Elvin O. 
Coslet, Jesse E. 
Cowan, Clarence E. 
Cravens, Guy D. 
Cupp, Albert H. 
Curtis, James O. 
Dixon, Rodger F. 
Dockery, Elmer E. 
Dooley, Willie D. 
Dronenburg, Russell 

N. 
Durnell, Oscar K. 
Earp, John B. 
England, Robert J. 
Faulkner, Harry B. 
Fears, Hulbert O. 
Flanegin, Paul R. 
Frazier, John J. 
Frizzell. John L. 
Fugit, Rector E. 
Gibson, Elden T.. 
Glover, Daniel T. 
Gunby, William E. 
Halterman, William 

S. 
Halterman, Willie J 
Harrison, John C. 
Hayes, Perry F. 
Heston, Alfred A, 
Holloway, Avillia 



Horn, Walter V. 
Hulbert, Leonard F. 
James, David R. 
Jones, Ralph E. 
Kemmerer, Birtrus 
Kost, Otis A. 
Kugler, John, Jr. 
Lamb, Frank 
Lovell, John C. 
Lueders, Odes C. 
McGuire, Dewey 
Martin, Paul 
Montgomery, Floyd A. 
Newton, Herbert J. 
Nowland, Owen W.' 
Owens, Ben T. 
Perreten, Henry J, 
Pesel, Everett R, 
Pound, John A. 
Price, Earl E. 
Reinhardt, Charles R. 
Rice, Charles F. 
Rinkenbaugh, John E. 
St. John, Arthur P. 
Shannon, Garland E. 
Shields, Thomas B. 
Skidmore, Everett E. 
Smith, Buel W. 
Smith, William 
Smithpeter, William 

L. 
Spotts, Edgar 
Stevenson, Henrv J. 
Stith. Forrest G. 
Swager, Den 
Swager, Edward 
Thomas, Frank P. 
Tumlinson, James P. 
Vance, William 
Vanderpool, Leo 
Wade, Jesse A. 
Walker, Alexander W. 
Ward, Fletcher T. 
Weaver, Earl C. 
Welch, Horace M. 
White, Harry 
White, Leslie S. 
WJlhelm, Roy 
Williams, Luther A, 
Wilson, Clarence 
Wilson, Russell 
Wright. Weslov G. 
York, Glenn O. 



Captain, 

Alexander M. Ellett 
1st Lieutenant, 

Robert W. Roberts 
2d Lieutenant, 

Ross Diehl 



COMPANY I 

ClIILLICOTHE 

1st Sergeant, 

Rowland, James H. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Blick, Verne 
Sergeants: 

Batta, Frank 



Avery, Thomas E. 
Foley, Claude 
Danielson, Herbert E. 
Blackburn, Clarence 

A. 
Howell, Paul D. 



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McHolland, Joseph D. 
Bayers, Arthur J. 
Corporals: 

Barber, Jerome E). 

Dennis, Omar 

Van Hoozer, LeRoy 

Dennis, Leon 

Irvin, William M. 

Harris, Fred K. 

Montgomery, Wilmont 

Mullinix, Leonard 

Dietrich, Frank M. 

Dietrich, Joseph H. 

McClellen, Irl 

Hood, Vernon 

Deigelman, John 

Nichols, John E). 

Clark, Ora 

Sloan, William T. 

Cranmer, William S. 
Cooks: 

Forbis, Walter M. 

Purintun, Lon G. 

Ireland, Fred 
Buglers: 

Chapman, Van 

Dienst, Ben 
Mechanics: 

Brant, George T. 

Love, Wesley O. 
1st Class Privates: 

Boley, Lee 

Decker, John 

Fowler, James C. 

Grice, Wallace 

Grouse, Charles F. 

Grouse, John H. 

Hall. Richard M. 

Hopkins, Arthur B. 

Howell. Lloyd S. 

King, Pearcie 

Lowe, Charles W. 

Merrill, Owen 

Miller, William B. 

Ostrander, Clarence 



Pearl, Vivian 
Russell, Delbert C. 
Sanders, Fred C. 
Shultz, Flmer D. 
Shultz, Harry W. 
Stewart, Edward S. 
White, Lysle C. 
Privates: 

Allen, James B. 
Anderson, Fdward V. 
Anderson, John L. 
Aye, Russell C. 
Baker, Wesley A. 
Barnhart, William C. 
Bratcher, Homer 
Bratcher, Meredith F. 
Brown, William E^ 
Burgard, Lester C. 
Burk, Ward M. 
Burkett, Roy L- 
Carney, James 
Carpenter, George W. 
Carothers, Paul 
Cashman, Terrence W. 
Chrisman, Ernest 
Clark, Palmer, 
Clowdis, Glen H. 
Cooper, Noah 
Cox, Floyd C. 
Cravens, Tinsley 
Dowell, George W. 
Dumm, Purl 
France, Clyde D. 
Gash, George D. 
Gibeaut, Eugene E. 
Goodwin, Charlie R. 
Goodwin, Ray 
Gross, Walter M. 
Gullick, Russell H. 
Hargrove, Glen N. 
Harvey, Wayne W. 
Hicks, Carl 
Hicks, Duary J. 
Hicks, Henry W. 
Kennedy, James A. 



Kern, John C. 
Lafferty, Fred H. 
Leigh, Arthur F. 
Lightner, James 
Linn, Ralph W. 
McDaniel, Earl 
McDaniel, Wilbur 
McKiddy, Ruby C. 
Maddux, George 
Merrill, Henry C. 
Meyer, Roy F. 
Moore, Samuel H, 
Munyon, Willard M. 
Murphy, Bruce 
Neal, Arthur 
Peas, William 
Peterie, Vaughan R. 
Portman, Maurice J. 
Rankin, Roscoe B. 
Rauber, Floyd 
Rauber, Ed 
Rauber, Ernest 
Rauber, Henry 
Sage, Orpha E. 
Seaman, Elmer J. 
Sherrow, Carl F. 
Silvey, Stokley O. 
Sparks, James H. 
Spidle, Forest L- 
Stone, William M, 
Sturgis, George 
Taylor, Lee R. 
Thomas, Earl D. 
Thompson, Johnnie F, 
Trosper, Roy C. 
Troutman, William J. 

B. 
Turner, Edward 
Turner, George D. 
Walters, Claud W. 
Waters, Clifford L. 
Wilkison, Ray 
Winfegar, Trace 
Worthington, James 

H. 
Wright, Earl 



Captain, 

John E. Wells 
1st Lieutenant, 

Coburn Hull 
2d Lieutenant, 

Oliver F. Crockett 
1st Sergeant, 

Champion, Cloyd B. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Stultz, Percy 
Supply Sergeant, 

Mitchell, Thomas W. 
Sergeants: 

Frazer, Eldon M. 



COMPANY K 
Weston 

West, Frank 
Arnold, Irvin 
Arnold, Milford 
Morrison, George E. 
Hill, Al. P. 
Miller, Welty A. 
Corporals: 

Donovan, Thomas W. 
Absher, Roy 
Crockett, Charles A. 
Hull, Wilson E. 
Helman, Charles H. 
Barnett, Carl D. 



Wilson, Coburn 
Tinder, Robert L. 
Arnold, Hobart 
Arnold, Armstrong 
Berry, Luther 
Clemens, Roy H. 
Duncan, John S. 
Hill, James W. 
Purcell, Miles 
Raines, Clarence M, 
Swearinger, Charlie E. 
Cooks : 

Melton, Louis W. 
Morelan, Bone A. 



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Clemens, Hardy h. 
Mechanics: 

Denzer, Albert ft. 

McMillian, James W. 
Buglers: 

Quinley, Pete J. 

Ivinville, Vernard B. 
1st Class Privates: 

Boyd, Hugh J. 

Branum, Roy F. 

Carter, James L. 

Couchman, Charlie 

Duncan, Ben F. 

Duncan, Charles M. 

Duncan, George E^. 

Duncan, Robert L,. 

Ferrell, Leslie J. 

Fulk, William A. 

Geer, John W. 

Hall, Decatur B. 

Hill, Neely 

Hull, Wood B. 

Marshall, Crester B. 

Miller, William F. 

Moberly, Harry F. 

Ninemire, George W. 

Royse, Elbert 

Simmons, Lester L. 

Sorrell, Leslie 

Spinner, Richard C. 

Thomason, Lilbern P. 

Whallon, Victor B. 

Williams, Claude F. 

Wilson, William B. 

Wright, Robert M. 
Privates : 

Agee, Millard T. 

Armstrong, Karl D. 

Arnold, Gay 



Ashburn, Robert A. 
Ball, Clarence 
Barchus, William 
Becker, Ralph F. 
Black, Roy C. 
Bowdre, Harry F. 
Bullard, Frank W. 
Cavanaugh, Ernest 
Clark, Samuel S. 
Coen, James E. 
Connor, Lee M. 
Conrad, William 
Coots, James M. 
Crawford, Oliver L. 
Daily, Allen H. 
Daily, Lee 
Davis, Hermal R. 
Davis, Robert C. 
Deets, Stanton, E. 
Ecton, Wiley J. 
Flinn,^ Evert L. 
Francis, Eugene 
Friel, Roy 
Garten, Robert 
Good, Wesley F. 
Grisham, J^sse D. 
Hamilton, Lewis B. 
Hanson, Elmer S. 
Heavelow, Clarence 

E. 
Hill, William J. 
Howard, Earl E. 
Hurt, Grant B., Jr. 
Hutchison, Otis 
Kaith, Claude 
Kelsey, Jesse L. 
Kensler. Harold R. 
Kith, William 
Kurth, Charles F. 
Lantz, Oren L. 



Large, William C. 
Linch, George I. 
Linville, David E. 
Long, Morris C. 
Loubey, Louis A. 
Lower, Fred W. 
Lukehart, Oather 
McClure, Hurshel A. 
Marolf, William E. 
Masters, Orville L. 
Merritt, Walter L. 
Minnick, Donald C. 
Minnick, Roy B. 
Myer, Frederick D. 
Palmer, Alva W. 
Palmer, Clyde R. 
Park, Lloyd D. 
Pennington, Lloyd 
Phipps, Albert M. 
Rainey, Leslie 
Reed, Elmer 
Robinson, Elmer 
Russell, George L. 
Schellhorn, Hubert P. 
Shaw, Welborn T. 
Smallwood, Harry A. 
Smith, Albert 
Smith, Willie 
Spargur, Frank C. 
Stephens, Norman A. 
Still, Clyde W. 
Sweger, Park G. 
Tapscott, Silas W. 
Tritt, James E. 
Truitt, Cecil T. 
Wagle, John H. 
Wallis, Delmer L. 
White, Wilfred H. 
Wiggins, Richard T. 
Wilson, Otis E. 



Captain, 

Ray W. Carter 

1st Lieutenant, 
Charles E. Munn 

2d Lieutenant, 
Moss H. Forney 

First Sergeant, 

Minton, George A. 

Mess Sergeant, 

Cardinell, John H. 

Supply Sergeant, 
Gibson, Hugh J. 

Sergeants: 

Preston, George 
Mylon, William 
Mcjunkin, John R. 
Jackson, Robert A, 
Shutts. Paul P. 



COMPANY L 
Mount City 

Corporals: 

Gehringer, Verne O. 

Montgomery, William 
S. 

Bickel, Fred E. 

Schoonover, Orville 

Cook, William H. 

Elton, Fred 

Miller, Joseph M. 

Duncan, Thomas H. 

Ballinger, James R. 

Jackson, Orville D. 

Myers, William M. 

Tibbetts, Roy 

Bentz, Albert R. 

Dovel, Tassel 

Rock, Weldon 

Tyson, James 
Cooks: 

Cardinell, Roy G. 



Buglers: 

Hadden, Harry 

Roberts, Jack 
1st Class Privates: 

Adams, George 

Blanchard, Floyd C. 

Bohart, Ora 

Bradley, David E. 

Chesney, Grover D. 

Cole, Charles H. 

Cook, Avard 

Cook, Charley 

Curtin, Henry P. 

Curtin, Joseph 

Dearmont, Irl 

Dillon, Paul S. 

Fitzmaurice, Francis 

Fleming, Claud 

Hatch, Alfred 

Hughes, Erwin E. 



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Meinsen, Ervin 
Neely, Walter L. 
Ogden, Lafe 
Reynolds, Floyd 
Simmons, Delbert E. 
Smith, Walter E. 
Stock, Emil 
Uphouse, Loyd T. 
Wampler, Charles 
Webster, George C. 
Weddle, Carl L. 
Privates : 

Allison, Albert R. 
Anno, Trevor G. 
Asher, Lee 
Asher, Thomas 
Bayha, Richard 
Bennett, James F. 
Bertram, William E. 
Biggs, Donald M. 
Boyd, Henry E. 
Bragg, Jake 
Brickey, Henry G. 
Bridgmon, Orville L. 
Browning, Frost A. 
Brummett, Glen 
Buckles, Carl R. 
Burns, Velma L. 
Carter, Russell E. 
Chuning, Edwin F. 
Couts, Clyde S. 
Coyle, Willam T. 
Dege, Adolph 



Digginger, Joseph 
Donan, Francis B. 
Eckard, Harvey 
Elkins, Orville A. 
Everett, Roy T. 
Everhart, William R. 
Fitzmaurice, Michael 

P. 
Geib, Frederick W. 
Geib, Henry W. 
Gilfillan, Eugene 
Gillenwater, Lester 
Gomel, Louis 
Guthrie, Robert N. 
Hardin, Roy 
Hopkins, Emmett 
Hopkins, Zachariah 
Hill, Roy D. 
Kinser, Samuel 
Kreek, John 
Lawrence, Earl 
Litts, Charles G. 
Litts, DeWayne 
Louden, Lester 
Lowe, Frank R. 
McKee, Nelson 
Maudlin, James W. 
Miller, Paul K. 
Moore, Delmer O. 
Nauman, Bryan W. 
Nauman, Clarence J, 
Nauman, Robert M. 
Neely, Glen 



Noll, Jacob S. 
Nye, Elmer 
Overlay, Anderson C. 
Phillips, Thomas 
Reynolds, Henry 
Robertson, Walter S. 
Robinson, Albert R. 
Root, George E. 
Schoonover, Tot 
Scott, Francis E. 
Sharp, Clarence G. 
Sinclair, Glenn 
Snodgrass, George 
Snodgrass, Joseph M. 
Stokes, Don D. 
Story, Ernest 
Story, Thomas M. 
Strickler, Paul 
Stuart, Vernon 
Taylor, Henry C. 
Thornhill, Archie 
Van Slyke, William 
Varvel, Luther 
Walker, Oliver 
Ward, Harold C. 
Watters, Clarence C. 
Weightman, Ray 
Williams, James 
Wilson, Julian 
Wilson, Russell 
Woodard, Jesse R. 
Woods, Earl 
Yount, Clyde C. 
Zook, John F. 



COMPANY M 
St. Joseph 



Captain, 

Charles E. Holt 
1st Lieutenant, 

George T. Worthen 
2d Lieutenant, 

Walter C. Dickey 
1st Sergeant, 

Dalton, Morris S. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Otton, George W. 
Supply Sergeant, 

McCallan, Clarence 
Sergeants: 

Kirkpatrick, John J. 

Lauder, James R. 

McKinnis, Warren 

Schuder, Rollie M. 

Raney, George W. 

Manning, Edmond P. 

Hogan, Gerald W. 
Corporals: 

Kilfoyle, Frank J. 

Grace, John S. 

Watson. William 

Stuart, Foster F. 



Kenney, LeRoy L. 

Gunn, Clarence T. 

Prichard, John S. 

Reilly, Lester F. 

Swenson, Paul T. 

Tomlinson, Jack 

Limle, Harry 

Hesehong, Ernest 

Zane, Waldo C. 

Clemens, Orval E. 

Pauley, George H. 

Caughlin, Joseph F. 
Cooks: 

Conley, Harry 

Sherry, Benjamin J. 

Smith, Roy 
Buglers: 

Robison, Edward 
Mechanics: 

Plummet, Charles L. 

Landers, William E. 
1st Class Privates: 

Berlin, Benny P. 

Byers, Nelson T. 

Carbry, Vincent N. 



Dalton, Charley 
Davis, Edwin L. 
Edmondson, Will 
Erickson, John J. 
Gaunce, Charles J. 
McAllister, James D, 
Milbourn, Orville 
Miller, Harold A. 
Noll, Charles 
Pinger, Hobart 
Ray, Harold A. 
Roth, Charles T. 
Schuder, Ronnie E. 
Sherry, Roy 
Spencer, George W. 
Suess, Albert E. 
Swiercinske, Leo A. 
Thomas, Claude 
Torbert, Mark 
Valentine, Howard R. 
Whalen, John R. 
Wiehl, George C. 
York, Oscar 
Privates: 

Amos, Claude L- 



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Amos, Jake 
Babcock, Eltee 
Bales, William R. 
Benedict, Myron D. 
Benick, Albert 
Berger, Herman 
Bowen, Isaiah F. 
Bowling, Ward 
Brelsford, Harry ly. 
Brooks, Albert ly. 
Brott, James W. 
Brown, Clarence O. 
Brown, Claude P. 
Brown, William M. 
Burroughs, Newton 
Chamberlin, Carl W. 
Clift, Cecil W. 
Cook, William S. 
DeFord, Ray 
Fairbanks, William J. 
Farris, Fred 
Florea, Glenn E. 
Fuson, Richard D. 
Grimm, Harry K. 
Grooms, James F). 
Guinn, Fstel E. 



Hackney, James A. 
Hansen, Fred 
Hayes, Joseph R. 
Haynes, Bert L. 
Hays, Chester A. 
Henry, Ernest R. 
Hoover, Charlie E. 
Janak, John C. 
Jelley, Floyd E. 
Johns, Claud I. 
Lane, Roy W. 
Leonard, Dewey B. 
Lowe, Jesse L. 
McClelland, Lester L. 
McDowell, Alva L. 
McKinney, George A. 
]\Tartinson, Oscar M. 
Meek, Lynn G. 
Miller, Joseph E. 
Miller, William H. 
Moore, Roger L. 
Morgan, Harold L. 
Motley, Frank L- 
Mullendore, Lloyd C. 
Musser, Stevie C. 
Nelson, Nels 
Pickrel, Archie B. 



Richter, Louis T. 
Rickel, Harry A. 
Ricketts, Charlie O. 
Riley, Charles E. 
Rosenauer, Christ 
Salisbury, Bryan 
Schmitz, John J. 
Searcy, Orvan O. 
Seifert, Fred H. 
Shawver, Howard T. 
Shoup, Norman 
Stein, Earl 
Stock, Joseph C. 
Taylor, Hugh F. 
Taylor, Lonie M. 
Thomas, Roy 
Trammell, William A. 
Truebe, George R. 
Truitt, James E. 
Wagenknecht, Ray- 
mond 
Walker, Lilburn J. 
Wiatt, Charley W. 
Wiehl, Noel M. 
Wilcox, Charles D. 
Wineland, Clare 
Wise, Everett W. 



SANITAEY DETACHMENT 

Louisiana 



Major, 

Godfrey O. Cuppaidge 
Captain, 

George W. Belshe 
Captain, 

Charles P. Lewellen 
1st Lieutenant, 

George M. Bateler 
1st Lieutenant, 

James A. Taylor 
1st Lieutenant, 

Walter L. Cronkite 
1st Sergeant, 

Naxera, Matthew W., 

Sergeants: 

O'Brien, Harry R. 



Blackstun, Lawrence M, 

Berry, Fred R. 
1st Class Privates: 

Dotson, William R. 

Dudley, Russell M. 

Edwards, Fornie 

Eickerman, Fred A. 

Graham, Sidney L. 

Jackson, Forrest 

Mazanec, William 

Mitts, Charles S. 

Newkirk, Urie 

Rose, Charles 

Shuck, John W. H. 

Tilton, Jettie F. 
Privates: 

Babcock, William M. 



Doty, James T. 
Flaherty, Thomas F. 
Galbreath, Ray D. 
Gore, Paul W. 
House, Curtis E. 
Howden, George 
Mansfield, Harry N. 
Nagel, Irwin G. 
Pappenport, James C. 
Pratt, Charles T. 
Schoenhals, Henry O. 
Smith, Maynard R. 
Sultzman, Francis E. 
Thompson, Robert G. 
Trawer, Marvin 
White, Allen C. 



SIXTH REGIMENT INFANTRY 

FIELD AND STAFF 

Jefferson City 



Colonel, 

Albert Linxwiler 

Commanding 

Lieutenant Colonel, 

Bennett C. Clark 



Major, 

Carl L. Ristine 
Major, 

Warren L. Mabrey 
Major, 

William T. Morgan 



1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 

Albert S. Gardner 
1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 

Rufus C. Kemper 
1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 

Alexander S. Oliver 



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HEADQUARTERS COIVIPANY 

Cape Girardeau 



Captain, 

Ray E. Seitz 
Rgt. Sgt. Maj., 

Jennings, Edward A. 
Bn. Sgt. Maj., 

Harrison, Robert D. 
Bn. Sgt. Maj., 

Rogers, James F. 
Bn. Sgt. Maj., 

McQueen, Frank T. 
1st Sergeant, 

Harrison, Arthur W. 
Color Sergeant, 

Howard, (Henry W.) 
(Harry W.) 
Sergeant, 

Schultz, Hina C, Jr. 
Cook, 

Stack, Sylvester 
Privates : 

Bell, Elmo J. 

Davison, Bert 

Eaken, Orvil P. 

Goodin, William 



Harris, James R. 

Haydon, Robert D. 

Hicks, William A. 

Hutchinson, Wylic 

King, Clarence 

Melton, Ira 

Miller Jesse Lee 

Myers, Fred C. 

Sellers, Floyd 

Shirel, Thomas E. 

Welch, Dean W. 
Band Leader, 

Schuchert, Clarence 
E. 
Asst. Band Leader, 

Lesem, Rurie L- 
Sergeants: 

Danks, Thomas A. A. 

Foster, Ernest F. 
Corporals: 

Hunter, Walter E. 

Kassel, Elmore W. 

King, James E. 

Patton, Leslie E. 



1st Class Musicians: 

Danks, Harry E. 

Thrower, Arthur C. 
2d Class Musicians: 

Crews, Lester 

Foster, Moses F. 

Kempe, Walter F. 
3d Class Musicians: 

Bentley, Albert E. 

Bledsoe, Carl P. 

Clayton, Ethelbert A. 
Jr. 

Danks, William H. 

Heyle, James R. 

Kaiser, Oscar C. 

Kassel, Chester W. 

Laswell, Gustavus 

McBride, Earl R. 

Pott, Clarence E. 

Tibbs, Harry 

Wells, Ernest F. 

Wilson, William 



Captain, 

Oliver Guy Jones 
Rgt. Sup. Sgt., 

Wilson, Vern R. 
Rgt. Sup. Sgt., 

Hamilton, David 
Rgt. Sup. Sgt.j 

Dickison, William A. 
1st Sergeant, 

Mankin, Dewey J. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Co day, Walter C. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Hoover, Frank D. 
Corporal, 

Felin, Henry EJ. 



SUPPLY COMPANY 

Seymore 

Horseshoer, 

(Carger) Carter, John 
A. 
Saddler, 

Fyan, William H. 
Cook, 

Mackey, Caleb M. 
Wagoners : 

Aelem, Everett H. 

Briggs, Franklin O. 

Carrick, Raymond 

Carter, Garrett W. 

Claxton, Howard N. 

Cloud, Austin W. 

Craig, William G. 

Davis, Levis A. 

Denney, William W. 

Dugan, Ivy A. 



Fletcher, George E. 
George, Pleamon A. 
Hailey, Joseph T. 
Handy, Roy 
Manning, Charley F. 
Mingus, Epbraim L. 
Morris, Roscoe E. 
Norcross, Roy G. 
Packard, Ernest A. 
Potts, John J. 
Richardson, Oscar E. 
Roe, William J. 
Spurlock, John E. 
Tarbutton, Clyde 
Tripp, Claude E. 
Viles, Robert C. 
Whittaker, Robert R. 



MACHINE GUN COMPANY 

Carterville 



Captain, 

Vance R. Thralls 
1st Lieutenant, 

Arch M. Baird 
2d Lieutenant, 

Orie S. Imes 
1st Sergeant, 

Newell, Harvey E. 



Mess Sergeant, 
Stewart, Louis G. 

Supply Sergeant, 
Leathers, Robert W. 

Stable Sergeant, 

Goldsberry, William 
O. 



Sergeants: 

Bourne, Edgar J. 
Harlan, James E. 
Hutchinson, Jess A. 
McCoUum, J. Bert 
Nelson, Frank C. 
True, Percy W. 
Wood, Charles B. 



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Corporals : 

Blanton, Henry H. 
DeCIure, Archie F. 
Hill, Leonard E. 
Hill, Ray 
Pierce, Forest 
Smith, Edward 
Stokes, Ongle L- 
Wirth, Charles C. 

Horseshoer, 

Plumley, Alexander 

Mechanics: 

Smith, John Phillip 
Young, Ferol J. 

Cooks: 

Darrah, Loyd E. 
Dixon, Thomas 

Buglers: 

Horine, Sidney F, 
Sims, Rudy S. 

Privates: 

Andrews. Hadley J. 
Arthur, Henry 
Barnett, Lee D. 



Binning, Charles L. 
Bishop, Earl N. 
Ely, Joe D. 
Brown, Ralph L. 
Caughenbaugh, John 

C. 
Cobb, Luther W. 
Collier, Henry 
Cook, Al. J. 
Crook, Thomas C. 
Daugherty, Jessie C. 
DeWitt, Lawrence 
Edgar, Sam H. 
Fultner, Phillip 
Gabriel, Clarence O. 
Gordon, George H. 
Griner, John H. 
Harbin, John W. 
Hawks, Leslie W. 
Ha3'^ward, Orville C. 
Killian, Maynard 
Klein, Harold H. 
McCloud, Claude D. 
McCoy, Guy 



McCoy, Jesse 
McGuinn, William 

Francis 
Manley, Edgar Rill 
Mead, Harvey 
Miller, Herbert F. 
Montgomery, Clarence 

J. 
Moore, Robert A, 
Mote, Guy U. 
Murphy, Charles L. 
Nichols, John E. 
Payne, Claud 
Peacock, Vernon A. 
Points, Frank E. 
Price, John D. 
Ropp, Chester Allen 
Stephens, Roy A. 
Whitley, Jack 
Williams, Alonzo C. 
Williams, Rolla B. 
Wilson, Columbus 
Yates, Vernie W. 
Zeller, Charles L. 



Captain, 

Ralph W. Campbell 
1st Lieutenant, 

Harry W. Boardman 
2d Lieutenant, 

William Stonestreet 
1st Sergeant, 

Nooe, Willie M. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Baker. Roy D. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Howard, Robert J. 
Sergeants: 

Haekker, Karl P. 

Bishop, Warner J. 

Erickson, John H. 

Mussatto, Joseph A. 

Amos, James R. 

Bear, James E. 
Corporals: 

Frazier, J. Wilson 

CuUey, Charles S. 

Hawkins, William 

Cross, Charles C. 

Hammer, Oscar J. 

Hammer, Karl F. 

Howe, Joseph R. 

Cullon, George T. 

Galladay, Roscoe H. 

Beisenherz, Edward 
L. 

Fizer, Bennie C. 
Mechanic, 

Petty, Geo. W. 



COMPANY A 

Lexington 

Cooks: 

Greer, Al. 

Biggs, Rufus 
Privates: 

Anderson, John P. 

Attebery, Cecil H. 

Aytes, Elex L. 

Bailey, Hobart W. 

Penning, Major 

Benoist, Frank L. 

Bezing, Fritz 

Book, Charles 

Bowman, James 

Brumfield, Roger 

Clark, William L. 

Collins, Edward H. 

Cunningham, John C. 

Darrah, Forest Q. 

Daugherty, Harvey M. 

Douglas, John H. 

Eagan, Emmett A. 

Eaton, Clyde 

Emery, Ormy 

Fieldcamp, Dick C. 

Foster, Arthur B. 

Frazier, Willie L. 

Geraughty, James 

Gillibert, Louis C. 

Gosoraski, Frank M. 

Hall, Lee 

Harney, Joseph F. 

Head, William R. 

Hill,_ Warren 

Hollingsworth, Jay G. 

Johnson, Ernest O. 

Kincheloe, James P. 



Kroencke, Emil L. 
Legg, Arthur P. 
Looney, Joseph 
McClure, Clyde E. 
McCormick, Myron 
McFadden, Clarence 
McGraw, Aubrey 
McLain, William G. 
Masoni, John 
Martin, Theodore 
Myers, Charles H. 
Nelson, Dewey 
Poe, Raymond 
Potter, Wilfred J. 
Redd, Willam M. 
Riley, John W. 
Ross, Orvill 
Rouse, Arvil F. 
Rouse, George S. 
See, Clarence D. 
Smith, Ernest C. 
Smith, Louis G. 
Smith, Upton B. 
Smith, William L. 
Stapleton, George W. 
Stapleton, Walter 
Steffens, Leonard II. 
Stevens, Frank T. 
Taney, Daniel 
Taney, Henry 
Thomas, Charles H. 
Thorson, Herbert W, 
Tucker, Aubra L. 
Vasques, Max 
Verwork, Julius 
Walton, Thomas 



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Warder, John M. 
Warren, Robert V. 
Wiley, Otis L. 



Willard, Andy J. 
Willard, Paul J. 
Williams, Carvin 



Williams, Edward V. 
Wolfenberger, Baxter 
Young, William W. 



COMPANY B 

St. Joseph 



Captain, 

James B- Weis 
1st Lieutenant, 

Oscar L. Harper 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Edward S. Garner, Jr. 
1st Sergeant, 

Weir, Will J. 
Supply Sergeant, 

White, Robert E. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Leighty, Harold H. 
Sergeants: 

Abbott, James B. 

Charlesworth, Earl A. 

Masteller, Emory L. 

Robinson, Edwin B. 

Miles, Ivel E. 

Junken, William H. 

Wilson, Dolph 

Messenger, Webb 
Corporals: 

White, Leo 

Farkas, Adam 

Tracy, Edward 

Prater, Thomas, 

Sparks, Clifford W. 

Harper, Ralph 

Chestnut, Kirby 

Lollis, Oscar 

Wyant, Warren R, 

John, Oscar 

Williams, Harry 

McLean, Earl 

Brunswig, Phillip H, 

Lacy, George T. 

Waugh, Oren 

Paden, William C. 

Masteller, Harvey E. 

Porter, Edward C. 
Buglers: 

Malotte, John 

Robinson, Wayne H. 
Cooks: 

Pratt, Hiram 

Tracy, William 

Culver, Fordys 
Mechanics: 

Hovey, James A. 

Williams, Harry 



Privates: 

Alberts, Samuel 
Aldrich, Charles M. 
Ball, Howard S. 
Banister, Earl F. 
Blackwell, Dick 
Blotz, Thomas 
Bowen, Alvin 
Bowen, Charles D. 
Brown, Bert 
Brown, Gene M. 
Caton, H. P. 
Chilton, Paul J. 
Clark, Ray 

Cook, Walter 
Cozine, Alvin 
Cozine, Roy 
Cramer, Clarence E. 
Crandall, Earl 
Crose, Albert 
Dean, John B. 
Decker, Daniel K. 
Decker, George E. 
Dennis, Bert 
Devine, William H. 
Dittemore, Aubrey C. 

Downs, Roner 

Dugger, Ross 

Durkin, Joseph W. 

Ecton, Frank C. 

Ellis, Charles E. 

Fixek, John 

Fouts, Fred 

Fry, Francis W. 

Fuhrer, Roy 

Gallagher, John P. 

Gentzell, Robert 

Gibson, Jake 

Griffith, Earl N. 

Griffiths, Lester 

Gore, Ilda 

Groves, Edward 

Hackney, Perry S. 

Haeberle, Harry G. 

Hale, Frank L. 

Haney, William H. 

Hardman, Charles H. 

Harrison, Robert 

Hinkle, Lyman J. 

Hollowell, .Frank 

Huston, Richard 

Hubbard, Robert E. 

Tones, Charles A. 

King, William T. 

Kirtley, Arthur 



Lacy, George T. 
Lawhon, Edward F. 
Lear, Albert O. 
Leighty, Edward L. 
LeRoy, Frank 
Lewis, Fred 
Lewis, Marvin 
McClintock, Lloyd H. 
McKee, Phillip C. 
McLean, Earl 
Miles, George T. 
Miller, Clinton 
Miller, Joseph W. 
Miller, Robert 
Moore, LeRoy 
Morlock, Orenza 
Morris, Garlin J. 
Munden, Lewis E. 
Myers, Fred W. 
Neff, Louis J. 
Osborn, Earl 

Parker, William A. 
Patrick, Lloyd 

Patton, Ora 
Phillbrick, Lawrence 
W. 

Pontius, Arthur C. 

Reeves, Walter A. 

Roberts, Coin 

Roberts, Ernest L. 

Ross, James 

Sch,einert, Jesse J. 

Shatto, William 

Smart, Howard A. 

Smith, Alba 

Smith, Thane B, 

Sparks, Arley 

Stark, Charles O. 

Stephenson, William 

Stockton, Hugh S. 

Stout, Orval V. 

Tanksley, Thomas 

Thompson, Henley D. 

Thompson, John 

Totten, Ivan R. 

Tracy, Clyde 

Tracy, Louis C. 

View, Clarence 

Walsh, John E. 

White, Lemuel 

Whittington, Jesse 

Wright, Elmo N. 

Wright, Harry 

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Captain, 

William F. St. John 
1st Lieutenant, 

Guido J. Schaff 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Frank F. Tracy 
1st Sergeant, 

Kuehl, Frederick C. 
Supply Sergeant, 

DeGroat, Fred E. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Schmille, Henry F. 
Sergeants: 

Bruegger, Fmil G. 

Compton, Cecil C. 

Dovey, John 

Funson, Harry J. 

Hindman, Justus 

Gilliespie, William R. 

Showers, George W. 

Stephens, Raymond A. 
Corporals: 

Bell, Earl T. 

Compton, Morris G. 

Cooley, William W. 

Courtney, Frank F). 

Flynn, Richard T. 

Geyer, George D, 

Guthrie, William H. 

Harris, James A. 

Marstella. Fred S. 

Morgan, Eddie A. 

Morris, Glen B. 

Schatzman, Aubrey M. 

Steele, Paul 

Wagner, Frank F. 

Weaver, Ralph P. 
Cooks: 

Dolan, Joseph P. 

Sparks, Louis J. 

Thomas, Robert 
Buglers: 

Blackford, Galvin 

Reid, Glenn B. 
Mechanic: 

Hertzel, Peter 
Privates : 

Alvis, Reuben A. 

Amend, Bryan 



COMPAIsrY c 

St. Joseph 

Anderson, Samuel A. 
Arnett. Wilson H. 
Arnold, Earl 
Baubits, Ross 
Bauman, Dewey 
Blackford, Louis S. 
Blaga, Joseph 
Boyle, Frank J. 
Brigham, Robert 
Cain, Clarence L. 
Conner, Roy 
Courtney, Wilbert M. 
Craig, James R. 
Curtin, Tom John 
Cuzzert, Harry D, 
Davis, Jobe 
Davis, Louis B. 
Davis, Milo 
Davis, William R. 
Dawson, William E. 
Detweiler, Ira 
Dow ell, Roy B. 
Dowell, Sanford J. 
Drake, William N. 
Dukes, Le Roy A. 
Ellis, Harry B. 
Elson, Fred R. 
Evans, Claude C. 
Fitzpatrick, Glen 
Fleshman, Samuel F. 
Flowers, Grover Cleve- 
land 
Fritz, Mike 
Fuson, John O. 
Gay, Murril K. 
Gomel, Frank 
Goodman, Frank C. 
Gossin, George D. 
Green, Albert 
Green, Frank 
Hainline, Wallace 
Hall, Cecil J. 
Harris. Lester L. 
Hartman, Lee H. 
Hartnett, James L. 
Haynes, Oscar 
Hinkle. Ray S. 
Howard, Fred McKin- 
ley 



Hunt, William 
Imus, Wayman H. 
Jensen, William P. 
Jones, George E. 
Julian, Wesley H. 
Katon, Thomas F. 
Kelley, Earl H. 
Kelley, James A. 
Kendrick, Timothy P. 
Keyser, Edward A. 
Kienzel, John W. 
King, F. Cecil 
King, Roy E. 
Kneer, Clark W. 
Kuhn, Alvin L. 
Larson, Harry E. 
Leavitt, Dewey V. 
Leffler, Perry C. 
Lowrie, William 
McBrayer, Arthur O. 
McCall, Thomas M. 
McCoy, Gilbert G. 
Mallory, Lee 
Marrs, John H. 
Merritt, Jere B. 
Miles, James A. 
Miller, James M. 
Nave, Fred W. 
Nowland, George 
Padgett, Ivel V. 
Palmer, Elmer H. 
Payne, John H. 
Peterson, Delmar Ray 
Rader, George 
Riordan, Michael 
Seip, Martin L. 
Sheffer, Charles 
Smith, Elmer 
Sollars, Thomas 
Stevenson, Edward 
Strange, Roy C. 
Tracy, Ralph E. 
Trant, Philip G. 
Tucker, Arthur 
Walker, Vessie 
Wampler, Clarence E. 
Wilson, Ralph H. 
Young, Charles 



Captain, 

Harry B. Scott 
1st Lieutenant, 

Harry O. Berry 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Joseph H. Salisbury 



COMPANY D 

Sedalia 

1st Sergeant, 

Dunnica, John Leon 
Mess Sergeant, 

Martin, Gran Alonzo 
Supply Sergeant, 

Scott, Lionel J. 



Sergeants: 

Triplett, William S. 
Richter, Julius J. 
Rissler, Charles Gor- 
don 
Herndon, George B, 



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Baldwin, William V. 

Knox, Lloyd V. 
Corporals: 

Porter, John C. 

Dowd, Lee Mack 

Lowrey, William IL 

Lamm, Gordon 

Maness, Henry M. 

Hampy, Ernest K. 

Adair, Robin 

Holsenpiller, James F. 

Burke, John C. 

Heisterberg, Edward J. 

Barnett, Robert L. 

Rendleman, Benjamin 
L« 
Mechanic: 

Durham, Henry F, 
Cooks: 

Meager, Leo James 
Bugler: 

Rayhill, Finis Edward 
Privates: 

Anderson, Luther C. 

Anderson, William H. 

Bond, Fred Arthur 

Bryant, Ellis E. 

Canaday, Charles Max 

Garlock, LeRoy 

Cooper, Henry Ray 

Croy, Harold B. 

Cunningham, Henry 
D. 

Davis, Earl H. 

Dickerson, William 
Joseph 

Douglas, Norman, H. 

Durett, John R. 

Engler, Marshall H. 



Enos, Don M. 

Enos, Loran D. 

Falknor, Carl C. 

Fletcher, William H. 

Franklin, Joseph D. 

Friend, Frank W. 

Fullerton, Forrest T. 

Garner, Charles C. 

Garrett, Walter C. 

Glass, James W. 

Glazebrook, James G. 

Gupton, Carl W. 

Hamm, William M. 

Harris, Jacob Jefiferson 

Harris, William J. 

Hayes, William Allen 

Henderson, John Sam- 
uel 

Heuitt, Henry Calep 

Hunt, Lester E. 

Jackson, John 

Jocoy, Charles Wil- 
liam 

Johnston, Herbert E. 

Lane, John H. 

Lawson, Ace Levi 

Lawson, Edmon Rus- 
sell 

Leftwich, James W, 

Lewis, Frank E- 

Lewis, William O. 

Lipscomb, Arthur E. 

Longan, Layton L. 

McCullough, James T. 

Manley, James M. 

March, Thomas B. 

Marcum, Willie 

Mathews, Walter I. 

Miller, Clyde James 

Mills, John Wesley 



Monroe, Emmet H. 

Moore, Zacharias 

Mullineaux, Joseph A. 

Mullins, Harry R. 

MuUins, Hayden G. 

Myrick, John H. 

Owen, James F. 

Palmer, Charles H. 

Palmer, Wiley S. 

Penland, William A. 

Phillips, William IT. 

Pursley, Thomas S. 

Quick, Everett Litton 

Riggs, Oscar B. 

Robinson, Carter A. 

Robinson, Clarence V. 

Robinson, George A. 

Robinson, Homer D. 

Robinson, William L. 

Sands, Henry C. 

Scott, Alva 

Scott, Genne 

Siebert, Leo M. 

Simmers, Henry N. 

Simmers, Robert E. 

Sisk, Albo H. 

Speer, Brent 

Speer, Ezra E. 

Stephens, Charles Oli- 
ver 

Tuttle, Cecil L. 

Washburn, Seth W. 

Weathers, Russell 
Olive 

Welch, George W. 

Weston, Harry B. 

Wilson, Arthur C. 

Witte, Gus E. 

Wolford, George E. 

Wood, DeWitt 



Captain, 

Henry E. Braschler 
1st Lieutenant, 

David M. Robertson 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Howard C. Lane 
1st Sergeant, 

Lewis, Samuel A. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Odom, Edley R. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Williams, Lat M. 
Sergeants: 

Pope, Robert D. 

Paul, John B. Jr. 

King, Lewis A. 

Keith, Hudson A. 

Dunn, Michael 

Hope, Anderson M. 



COIViPANY E 
Doniphan 

Corporals: 

Boster, Chester A. 

Bond, Edgar 

Corckran, Joe 

Casteel, Harve 

Easter, Joe T. 

Hancock, John M. 

Hope, Charlie, 

McKinney, Frank 

Napier, Charles L. 

Ponder, Arthur R. 

Sanders, James L. 

Wall, Herbert M. 
Cooks: 

Camp, Joseph 

Blyze, Joseph H. 
Buglers : 

Richmond, Fred C. 

Ponder, Arno L,. 



Privates : 

Ashcraft, Robert L- 
Bevans, George R. 
Bolin, Bennie E. 
Boxx, Walter W. 
Brakefield, Lee 
Brown, Albert A. 
Bryant, James W. 
Bumgardner, Jacob 
Coleman, Ralph L. 
Crowe, Ed. A. 
Davis, Claude A. 
Davis, Harry 
Dawson, Francis M, 
Desich, Emery 
Dixon, Kennett S. 
Dixon, Leonard L. 
Dizmang, Roy L. 
Donley, Monroe L. 



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Duncan, James M. 
Dunigan, Lee R. 
Dunigan, McKinley 
Few, Walter E. 
Garrett, Solomon M. 
Gibson, Charles R. 
Gibson, Homer 
Gray, Arthur B. 
Greer, Leonard D. 
Hancock, Aaron S. 
Harder, Claude E. 
Harris, James A. 
Helvey, Willie 
Hill, Elmer E. 
Hillard, Doniphan 
Hines, Sheridan 
Holt, Orbra V. 
Hopkins, James S. 
Inman, Lewis F. 
Lawhon, Cal. M. 
Lawhon, Frank 
Leroux, John N. 
Logan, John W. 
Lokey, William M. 



Long, Elijah R. 
Lorey, James M. 
McDowell, William J. 
McGee, Samuel D. 
McKinney, Noah 
McKinney, Orason A. 
McQuay, Aldris D. 
McWilliams, Lewis ]\1. 
Maberry, Olvert 
Martin, Thomas J. 
Mesaros, Frank 
Miller, Lewis 
Mills, Jesse R. 
Mounce, Charlie S. 
Nesca, Louis 
Naylor, Raymond C. 
Novock, Earl 
Nowak, Adam 
Perry, Harry O. 
Peters, William Law- 
rence 
Pitman, Roe E. 
Ponder, Chester H. 
Ponder, Hubert L. 



Ponder, William F. 
Rackley, Mack 
Reed, Oscar 
Shoat, James C. 
Sraelser, Clarence S. 
Starkey, Sidney M. 
Stucker, Walter L. 
Sullivan, Silvester 
Swofford, Albert 
Taylor, William E. 
Thomas, Jacob 
Towner, William A. 
Trotter, Elias Wier 
Tyra, Joseph R. 
Wakefield, Thomas G. 
Wardlow, Dauca Roy 
West, Herman R. 
West, Jim L. 
West, Lionel M. 
Whitwell, Herman B. 
Williams, Robert E. 
Wilson, Archie A. 
Wright, Andy R. 
Young, Chester A. 



Captain, 

Walter W. Durnell 
1st Lieutenant, 

Jo. C. Ferguson 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Richard H. Stogsdill 
Sergeants: 

Fleming, Harry H. 

Gray, Charles A. 

Oldfather, William J. 

Holloway, Guy M. 

Haycraft, Philip E. 

Gorman, Harold F. 

Brawner, Clark E. 

Caylor, Leonard C. 

VoUmar, John L. 
Corporals: 

Smith, Hearl C. 

Patterson, Homer 

Holloway, Clyde 

Thomas, Archie I. 

Drymon, Floyd 

Phillips, James L. 

Marcellus, Mahlon G. 

Hengel, Fredrick B. 

Bradshaw, Walter 

Winch, Raymond 

James, Elum O. 
Mechanic, 

Hartin, Alva 
Cooks: 

Whetstine, Lewis L. 

Anderson, Thomas A. 
Buglers: 

Lane, Thomas H. 

Ruby, Eric S. 



COMPANY F 
Willow Springs 

Privates: 

Abbott, Ollie E. 
Anglin, Earnest L. 
Baldwin, Everet W. 
Beck, Clyde O. 
Belshe, Lawrence L. 
Booher, Benjamin F. 
Bradford, George T. 
Bridge, Louis R. 
Brown, Willie H. 
Browning, Merl R, 
Caulder, John H. 
Chaney, Walter J. 
Chrisco, Heiibert P. 
Collins, Ben C. 
Cooper, Silas W. 
Cox, John M. 
Grain, William J. 
Cunningham, Hugh R. 
Dermon, John M. 
Dirk, Henry E- 
Dove, Fred E. 
Duckworth, Joseph W. 
Ferrell, Clifford _E. 
Findley, Benjamin C. 
Floyd, Samuel D. 
Frank, Napoleon R. 
Gentry, John M. 
Goddard, Nathan J. 
Hall, Weaver, 
PTengel, Carl J. 
Herndon, Joseph F. 
Higginbotham, Her- 
man H. 
Hill, Bob 
Holden, George F. 



Holt, Delbert E. 
Holt, Willie E. 
Johnson, Frank W. 
Laws, Orval G. 
Lease, Martin L. 
Linderer, Charley 
Lingle, Walter S. 
Loch, William A. 
McClanahan, Tobe 
McClellan, Ralph K. 
McGowan, Jasper C. 
Means, John C. 
Miller, William F, 
Moody, Harry L. 
Murrell, McF. 
Muxlow, Glenn D. 
Myers, Roy J. 
Noblitt, Thomas E. 
Norris, Cecil L. 
Oliver. John H. 
Orr, James R. 
Plemmons, Charles E. 
Rader, John H. 
Rader, Lee 
Reed, John O. 
Reed, Orval O. 
Rogers, Wallace J. 
Rust, Arch F. 
Sanders, Lou W. 
Shannon, William E. 
Sheltin, Charley 
Skyles, George W. 
vSmith, Irvin 
Smith, Mack J. 
Stewart, Jasper L- 
Stewart, William H. 



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Stogsdill, Franklin W. 
Taylor, Iria B. 
Taylor, Warren W. 
Thomas, William A. 



Waggener, Edgar F. 
Weatherman, Elmer B, 
West, Virgle 
Whittaker, Ray 



Wiles, Claudie E. 
Willoughby, Thomas 

B. 
Winch, Everett 



Captain, 

Jacob L. Milligan 
1st Lieutenant, 

Robert Kirk Brady 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Cecil M. Farris 
1st Sergeant, 

Littman, Arthur 
Mess Sergeant, 

Tarwater, Roy E. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Wilkinson, John L. 
Sergeants: 

Davis, Gerald H. 

Sisk, Forest O. 

Hughes, Howard Roy 

Weber, Ivan 

Saunders, Wade H. 
Corporals: 

Pifer, Ray L. 

Ward, Edward 

Brown, Gerald B. 

Farmer, McKinley 

Sexton, Charles A. 

Kraft, Moses 

Hutchinson, Hubert L. 

Bryce, James 

Rogers, Ernest 

Roark, Harry E. 

Brown, William E. 
Cooks : 

Ward, Flem C. 

Vandiver, Jesse 
Mechanic, 

Cates, Jesse L. 
Buglers:, 

Cook, Myrel J. 

Van Horn, Robert G. 



COMPANY G 

Richmond 

Privates : 

Abbott, Albert W. 
Anderson, Charlie 
Baker, Claytin 
Bales, Cleveland A. 
Belle, George 
Blann, Lawrence R. 
Bowman, Roscoe 
Brady, Elvis W. 
Brockman, Guthrie 
Burnett, Clyde 
Burnett, Oscar P. 
Cheek, Middleton A. 
Coleman, Virgil 
Cook, Ralph H. 
Couch, Robert T. 
Covey, Clyde E. 
Craven, Carl V. 
Dale, Ernest 
Dennis, Charles J. 
Dickey, Ward S. 
Dixon, John 
Elliott, Asa D. 
Everett, Noah H. 
Foster, Frank H. 
Gardner, Lloyd G. 
Gibson, Phil S. 
Gorman, Sanford B. 
Griffith, Fred 
Hamil, William F. 
Hannah, Charley 
Henderson, Floyd H. 
Hicks, Tillman 
Hightower, Raymond 
Hill, Roscoe C. 
Jones, Harry S. 
Keith, Glenn A. 
Liles, Oscar P. 
Lockard, Ernest M. 



Loyd, James I. 
Luellen, William W. 
Maples, John F. 
Mayabb, Orba M. 
Michael, Gairrie E. 
Middleton, Charles L. 
Miller, Leonard R. 
Mooney, George 
Moyer, Allen B. 
Mulliken, Elmer 
Odell, Jack 
O'Neal, William A. 
Phelps, George H., Jr. 
Price, Thomas C. 
Prunty, James A. 
Reed, Clarence S. 
Richards, Henry E, 
Richardson, Thomas 
Rider, Earl 
Sampson, Harold A. 
Seaton, Virgil D. 
Sidener, Henry F. 
Slaughter, Grover F. 
Snowden, Henry A. 
Spence, George J. 
Stevens, Fred 
Stevens, Walter 
Stigall, John W. 
Swearingin, John H 
Swearingin, Leonard 

Teai, Walter 
Teegarden, James M, 
Thompson, Noah K. 
Thompson, Ralph J. 
Thompson, Richard 
Vanhoozer, Cecil N. 
Yoakum, Claud 
Yoakum, Joseph 



Captain 

James C. Kenady 
1st Lieutenant, 

Claude M. Skelton 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Clarence G. Smith 
1st Sergeant, 

Ellis, James D. 
Mess Sergeant 

Dunn, Harry 



COMPANY H 

Dexter 

Supply Sergeant 
Smith, Earl B. 

Sergeants : 

Dunn, Joel E. 
Julian, John T. 
Munger, Paul M. 
Roper, Henry E. 

Corporals : 

Brown, Ernest 
Buchannan Gleyn 
Burrow, Arthur P. 



Cox, Meredith 
Day, Cecil L. 
Fowler, John H. 
Harris, Jesse T. 
Hicks, Herbert 
Lane, James T, 
Lasater, Thomas J. 
McGehee, Theodore 
Oliver, Clarence P. 
Singleton, James S. 
Wallace, Henry 



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Wantland, R. Orley 

Womack, Walter M. 
Cooks: 

Driskell, Robert H. 

Kilmer, Elvin E. 
Buglers : 

Brooks, Earl C. 

Hooker, Henry Otis 
Mechanics : 

Teel, John F. 

Turner, James R. 
Privates : 

Adams, Henry A. 

Allen, Eewdorth E- 

Anderson, Roy 

Ashcraft, Zibo G. 

Ashworth, Ben E. 

Bailey, Ralph D. 

Bedwell, Samuel M. 

Blocker, James M. 

Bolin, John A. 

Bollinger, Jesse I\I. 

Brannock, Bert 

Brown, Floyd P. 

Brown, Lewis S. 

Caldwell, Lou S. 

Caldwell, Luther R. 

Carlton, Ora 

Carwile, James C. 

Chasteen, Otto 

Charman, Richard C. 

Clevenger, Evert 

Davis, Amos 

Davis, John O. 

Dickerson, Arthur L. 

Dickerson, Jesse L. 

Dillion, R. Thomas 

Dodd, Frank 

Doyle, Thomas C. 

Dunning, James M. 

Edwards, Herrel 



Elhott, Edgar G. 
Ford, James C. 
Foreman, Glenn J. 
Gaines, Benjamin L. 
Garrison, John 
Gray, Bub 
Hahn, Charlie 
Hanks, Claud 
Harper, William E. 
Harris, Fred B. 
Harris, George W. 
Hartley, Clinton N. 
Hazlip, Robert A. 
Hefner, Fred 
Hill, Lawrence E. 
Hisan, .Elmer 
Holland, John J. 
Hopkins, Elza 
Horton, Jackson 
Howell, Homer 
Hurst, Floyd J. 
Hurst, William A. 
Hutson, Harry 
Irons, Jack 
James, Charles L. 
Jett, Everett 
Jones, James A. 
Jones, John R. 
Jones, Stanley 
Jones, Thomas A. 
Joseph, Oliveir 
Julian, Elbert A. 
Kagle, William W. 
Keaton, Charles H. 
Keaton, James S. 
Keen, Charles G. 
King, Henry W. 
King, James A. 
Kirby, Charles D. 
Lindsey, Mont O. 
Little, Andrew J. 
McAllister, Harry 



McDowell, Benjamin 
McFarlan, Walter 
McGehee, Gilbert 
McGhee, Cecil 
McGuire, Charles V. 
Marley, Perry 
Martin, Jesse 
Mathney, Gardiner 
Mayberry, Robert 
Meeks, Cletis W. 
Miller, Rufus 
Milner, Bernice 
Montgomery, Clarence 

L. 
Oglevie, George 
Peavey, Curtis 
Pryor, Alvin L. 
Ramsey, John 
Reagan, James B. 
Riley, C'Jaude 
Roberts, Earl P. 
Sadler, Arthur Wm. 
Sadler, Monroe C. 
Shelby, Homer T. 
Shetterly, Benjamin E. 
Shoemaker, James T. 
Stalion, Marcus 
Strop, Audi J. 
Sylcox, William M. 
Tatum, George 
Thackston, Curtis 
Thorn, Charles H. 
Tippen, Roy E. 
Tracer, Roy 
Turner, Claude B. 
Walker, Oscar 
White, Marshall 
Whitney, Alza N. 
Wilkie, Millard F. 
Wolff, Robert H. 
Woolard, Earl 
Yates, George W. 



COMPANY I 

Kennett 



Captain, 

Fred Ordway W^ick- 
ham 
1st Lieutenant, 

Samuel T. Adams 
2d Lieutenant, 

Ernest A. Shirley 
1st Sergeant, 

Lowe, James II. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Nierstheimer, John E. 
Sergeants : 

Trout, George W. 

Smith, Roy C. 

Kersey, Bronie 

Hall, Robert S. 

Mead, Charles 



Corporals : 

McGuire, Albert 

Benson, Hubert E. 

Evans, Fred S. 

Sparks, James Ralph 

Ilusband, Lesley 

Hollis, Ivy D. 

Eatman, John 

Webb, Dock T. 

Snipes, Joseph Talbcrt 

Riley, Earl 

Pierce, Arch F. 
Buglers: 

Lewis, Loomis 

Pool, James A. 
INIechanic, 

Stewart, William J. 



Cooks : 

Presnell, Avery 

Ayers, Elbert H. 

McAnally, John F. 
Privates: 

Adams, Andrew Jack- 
son 

Ball, Ira 

Ball, Ollie 

Beck, James W. 

Best, Will 

Bishop, Odie F. 

Black, Ermur 

Boner, Edward 

Brewsaugh, Edwin O. 

Brower, Fred 

Burn's, Orvil 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Cagle, James C. 

Carlile, Franklin Jo- 
seph 

Clubb, Grover 

Clubb, John 

Crim, Arthur i\Iack 

Culbertson, Marion V. 

Darlington, Willie L. 

Denam, Harvey E. 

Dudley, Jesse 

Dunnivan, Cecil 

Eadon, Herbert 

ElHott, Dolph G. 

Forsyth e, Walter 

Frederick, David C. 

Frederick, Samuel R.. 

Gabriel, William 
Elmer 

Green, Beausford 

Hall, John F. 

Hanks, Ackland Jr, 

Hanks, Jacob 



Hartsoe, Otho 
Hatcher, William 

Howard 
Hicklin, Lee E. 
Holbrooks, Henry H. 
Jackson, Isaac 
Jackson, Watson 
Jones, Albert C. 
Kersey, Vernon 
Killian, Charles H. 
King, Albert F. 
King, Ed 

Knight, Cecil Andrew 
Lemonds, Luther A. 
Mangold, Thomas O. 
Masters, Jacob C. 
Mead, Alva L. 
Mizzell, Emerson 
Mullins, Clarence 
Neill, John A. 
Nichols, Orvell 
Noe, Eric 



O'Bryant, James 
Oiler, John W. 
Owens, John W. 
Peel, John R. 
Perkins, Abraham 
Pickett, Lin 
Ray, Guy B. 
Reese, Verhan 
Sackman, Leonard 
Shelton, Ernest A. 
Smith, Leaman 
Somer, Raymond 
Stamps, Samuel S. 
Starnes, Alfred 
Suratt, Oscar 
Taruce, James 
Tharp, Roy E. 
Tharp, William 
Walker, Pearl 
Walker, Prentis Nu- 

ten 
White, Dewey F. 
Williams, Baxter 



Captain, 

Charles L- Malone 
1st Lieutenant 

Seth T. Reeder 
2d Lieutenant 

WilUam B. Malone 
1st Sergeant, 

Richardson, Albert 

Mess Sergeant, 

Malone, John R. 
Sergeants : 

Bryant, Ray 

Ginger, Virgil 

Greenwell, Alva R. 

Caldwell, Elmo 

Milhorn, Ed 

Gill, Glover 

Lawson, Harry E. 
Corporals: 

Wilkey, Wilburn R. 

Norris, Wallace 

Payne, EU 

Blyalock, Will 

Ryan, Therman 

Fowler, Edgar T. 

McCormack, Tim H. 

Marshall, Arthur 

Simpson, William F. 

Cooks : 

Marteau, Vivian 
Venerable, Luther 
James 

Privates : 

Armstrong, Will 



COMPANY K 

SiKESTON 

Arnold, Herbert 
Arnold, Louis 
Bacon, William 
Bailey, Van 
Barnett, Charles J. 
Beal, Eugene 
Blake, Ray 
Branch, Arthur 
Brooks, Charles H. 
Browning, Claude 
Bruner, James 
Cooley, Harry 
Cora, Claiborn 
Crosby, Mason 
Davis, John B. 
Dillard, Johnson H. 
Dillon, Clarence 

Dobbs, Albert 
Dobbs, Henry 

Duncan, Frank C. 

Edwards, Arlie 

English, Thomas J. 

Ethridge, Harry 

Gill, Elmer 

Glover, Ale 

Goodwin, Bill 

Greer, Alfred 

Greer, Robert 

Haggard, William C. 

Hampton, Homer 

Harbison, Everett 

Harbison, Norman 

Harp, Alber 

Henly, Otis 

Hobbs. Ules 



Hogan, Sam 
Hoover, Frank 
Howard, Earl 
Hummel, John H. 
Hunt, Albert R. 
Hunt, Irwin R. 
James, Farris 
Jones, Ira 
Knupp, Charles W. 
Laster, James 
Lenon, Otto 
Lofton, Boyd 
Loucks, Ben 
Lowry, George 
McCormick, Marshall 
McLard, Laurence E- 
Mainard, Charles A. 
Mainard, Nood 
Modglin, Lyndolph 

W. 
Monroe, Herschel 
Nicols, Dewey 
Odell, Raymond 
O'SulHvan, Allen 
Pack, Herbert M. 
Potter, Curtis 
Potts, William 
Pullman, Frankie L. 

L. 
Reynolds, Lester 
Robertson, Fred R. 
Roper, Joseph 
Stephens, Joseph L. 
Talcott, Frank 
Tidwell, Elbert B. 
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Toler, Claud T. 
Vick, E:iiza 
Vivrett, I/awrence 



Walker, Orion 
Wallace, IJarl 
Walters, Wilson 



Watson, John W. 
Weaver, James 
Wilson, John 



Captain, 

Wilson C. Bain 
1st Lieutenant, 

Howard N, Frissell 
2d Lieutenant, 

Harry W. Gaines 
1st Sergeant, 

Godart, James EJ. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Rodgers, Cleveland G. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Williams, William J. 
Sergeants : 

Behymer, Benjamin 

F. 
Gibbs, Claibourne R. 

Jr. 
Husserrer, Vincent 
Pride, Jack S. 
Stack, George W. 
Corporals : 

Beckman, Robert L. 
Blattner, Charles F., 

Jr. 
Gaines, Norman I. 
Halter, Albert L. 
Hayes, John F. 
Hensley, George C. 
Killough, Josephus J. 
Nichol, Arthur P. 
Summers, George C. 
Wilson, Landon A. 
Cooks : 

Henley, Charles F. 
Smith, Sylvester V. 
Buglers : 

Kimmich, Robert 
Nevins, Lynn W. 
Mechanics : 
Fstes, Roland 
Althenthal, Clarence 
G. 



COMPANY L 

Cape Girardeau 

Privates : 

Baldwin, Angus F. 

Baum, George D. 

Bell, King 

Boon, Lemmie 

Bowman, James T. 

Brown, John L,. 

Campbell, William 

Caraker, Horace 

Chappius, Pierre L. 

Clifford, Courtney 

Cobb, Willie R. 

Coleman, James M. 

Copen, Lum 

David, Moritz 

Davidson, Wilton W. 

Davis, John 

Davis, Otto J. 

Demon, Roy M. 

Dillingham, James M. 

Fades, Fred 

Fndicott, Roma 

Fornes, Benjamin B. 

Funk, Walter C. 

Geisner, Leo G. 

Gerecke, Alvin W. 

Glass, Walter 
Glastetter, Martin 
Hager, Frank 
Hager, Harry H. 
Henley, Archie 
Hensley, James R. 
Hitt, Lawrence A. 
Hohler, Otto 
Hohrer, William H. 
Hopper, Raymond A. 
Howard, George D. 
Howard, Jesse 
Hutchins, Roy L- 
Hutchinson, Charles 

F. 
Jackson, Lawrence C. 



Joernes, Clark A, 
Jones, Dephonie 
Jones, James P. 
Jordan, Raymond 
King, Roy 
Koch, Joseph F. 
Koch, Raymond 
Long, James H. 
McClellan, Jesse 
McCormack, Thomas 
McCormick, Fdd 
McCormick, Walter 
Messmer, Albert 

Meyers, Clarence R. 

Morse, William 

Newlin, Lyles F. 

Nolan, Roy S. 

Oxford, William F. 

Prance, Joseph W. 

Puchbauer, Arthur 

Rasico, Paul F- 

Revelle, James 

Rodgers, Harper H. 

Rothrock, John C. 

Smith, Arthur 

Smith, George M. 

Smith, Henry C. 

Smith, Oscar 

Smith, Shelby C. 

Stedham, William H. 

Sullivan, Marion 

Sullivan, Samuel F. 

Sutton, Charles D, 

Sutton, John F. 

Tarr, Joseph P. 

Waldron, Charles 

Walker, Birdie R. 

Wallace, Guy F. 

Walton, Carvel H. 

Walton, Malcomb R. 
Weimer, Harold 
Williams, Curtis 
Witzel, Herman 



Captain, 

Grant Davidson 
1st Lieutenant, 

Henry F. Black 
2d Lieutenant, 

Frank M. Cox 
1st Sergeant, 

Rafferty, George F. 



COMPANY M 
Poplar Bluff 

Supply Sergeant, 

Sutton, Walter Baird 
Mess Sergeant, 

Moore, Arthur W. 
Sergeants : 

Adams, Roscoe G. 

Branch, Richard F. 

Ferguson, Harry 



Meadows, John T. 
Prestage, Norman A, 
Raulston, Athel A, 
Tyner, George 
Corporals : 

Campbell, Farle 
Carpenter, David 
Clark, Columbus B. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Guentzel, Otto C. 

Harrison, Harry C. 

Kearbey, Robert 

Kern, O. Oscar 

Malone, Charles 

Maynard, Dewey 

Miller, Charles 

Oswald, Claude 

Overton, Charles 

Parce, Oscar L. 

Shaw, Lee 

Taylor, Roy L. 

Worley, Cleburn J. 

Yocum, Alan 
Cooks: 

Angelo, Liverain 

Purrine, HalHe O. 
Bugrlers : 

Henderson, Joseph M. 

Neff, Leol M. 
Mechanic, 

Ettinger, William L. 
Privates : 

Alexander, Barnie 

Allsman, Jerry 

Beard, Grover T. 

Black, Ellsworth 

Blazier, Clarence J. 

Board, Curtis 

Brantley, Felix J. 

Britts, Ed L. 

Burgin, Walter E. 

Byrd, Alva 

Carrol, James W. 

Cates, James L. 

Clark, Myrtie 

Collier, Pearcey 

Conley, Mike 

Coonce, Lee Roy 

Cown, Roy 

Cudd, Willie 

Darby, Fred W. 

Davis, Earl 

Davis, Golden 



Dodson, Harvey E. 
Dunning, Wayne G. 
Eads, Lee 
Edwards, Theo. R. 
Ervin, Sherman W. 
Ewing, William F. 
Felkins, Earl 
Fisher, Roy 
Fowler, Jesse 
Fowler, Roy E. 
Gibbs, Edward 
Glllin, Miles 
Gillispie, Ola W. 
Givens, Allen 
Gower, William C. 
Greer, Herbert 
Guard, Hays 
Harrington Charles 
Hays, James 
Higgenbotham, Earl 
Hixson, Edward 
Hobbs, William J. 
Howell, Charlie 
Ivey, Albert H. 
Ivey, Allen B. 
Ivey, John L. 
Ivey, Richard F. 
Irvin, George 
Jennings, Corwin B. 
Jett, Delpha 
Jones, John F. 
Kell, James Owen 
Kellums, John 
Kellums, Nottley 
Killian, Gilbert 
Killian, Theodore R. 
Lampston, John 
Langley, Charles J. 
Lee, John 
Lee, Richard F. 
Loyd, Claud O. 
McClintock, Claude 
Mclver, Lawrence 
Macom, Clarence 



Mast, John 
Mauk, Charles 
Mauk, Claud 
Mauk, Hiram, 
Mayberry, Claude 
Melton, Charles 
Melton, Jesse 
Mitchell, Earl 
Murray, Walter 
Owens, Howell 
Parker, Arthur 
Parker, Harvey W. 
Phenix, Carl E. 
Piatt, Jilson S. 
Pipkin, Sidney 
Reasons, James Brit- 
ton 
Redwine, Thomas 
Rice, Orb 
Rickman, Poley 
Riggens, Spencer 
Riggs, Dude 
Risinger, Ralph 
Roark, Jesse 
RoUand, Truman 
Rose, William R. 
Ross, George A. 
Scaggs, Lee Henry 
Schnider, Lewis J. 
Scott, Enoch 
Sisk, William V. 
Smith, Oliver P. 
Sparman, William R. 
Spencer, James 
Summers, Ben H. 
Thompson, Roy G. 
Todd, Carl 
Townsend. Jim 
Walker, Roscoe 
Waller, Tames E. 
Webb, Henry 
Wilburn, Oscar 
Wofley. Sam 
York, Lenard 



SANITARY DETACHMENT 
West Plains 



Major, 

Albert H. Thornburgh 
1st Lieutenant, 

George W. Phi'pps 
1st Lieutenant, 

Francis G. Bond 
1st Lieutenant, 

Ford A. Barnes 
1st Sergeant, 

Bohrer, Charles R. 
Sergeants : 

Harlin, Amos R. 

Dowler, Harold C. 

Woods, Wilson Otto 
Privates : 

Bacon, Amiel E. 



Bates, Don Arthur 
Cagle, Lewis B. 
Claxton, Henry C. 
Crider, Albert F. 
Edwards, Harry O. 
Edwards, Roy B. 
Floyd, Henry Oglesby 
Galloway, Clark S. 
Grimmett, Alfred 

Benton 
Groce, Dallas 
Groce, Lawrence 
Hornidy, George E. 
Howell, Joe R. 
Ingold, INIarion T. 
Krause, J. Martin 



Ludwig, Carl W. 
Males, Earl 
Mesara, Thomas W. 
Morse, J. Alpha 
Payne, Elza C. 
Pottle, Ralph L. 
Prater, Floyd R. 
Reed, Orr M. 
Robertson, Page D. 
Royle, John Leemon 
Sinclair, Edward P. 
Turner, Jesse L. 
Washington, George 

S. 
Williams, Webster W. 



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FIEST SEPARATE COMPANY INFANTRY 
Campbell, Mo. 



Privates: 

Anderson, Louis E. 
Arendell, Cecil B. 
Arnold, Benjamin F. 
Arr, Olivia 

Billington, Donnie M. 
Bodine, Martin C. 
Bradshaw, Clarence A. 
Bratcher, Bernie 
Bridges, Ambrose D. 
Bridges, Thomas W. 
Brooks, Charlie E. 
Brooks, Lawrence W. 
Brooks, Robert O. 
Brown, Otis L. 
Brown, Paul 
Burchett, Thomas M. 
Byrd, William L. 
Carmack, Louis I. 
Cleary, Grover C. 
Cobb, Lawrence L. 
Crawford, Charles W. 
Crow, Homer L. 
Curry, Homer 
Detrie, Ambrose 
Dunscomb, Elmer 
Elliott, William L. 
Ferguson, Willie L. 
Flanagan, Van 
Foster, Lonnie L. 
Fry, Robert G. 
Gardner, Harry 
Gaultney, Ezra F. 
Gehrig, Clarence D. 
Goddard, Loyd 
Gregory, Charles R. 
Griffin, Herlie 
Grimes, William F. 
Hale, Charley 
Flail, George R. 
Hampton, Charley 



Hardy, Dewey 
Harper, Cecil B. 
Harris, Arthur 
Henderson, Eugene 
Henderson, Thebus 
Higdon, John L. 
Hoggard, Odra B. 
Hutchinson, Herman 

H. 
Hutchinson, William 

D. 
Johnson, Dewey L. 
Jones, James A. 
Joslin, Arthur C. 
Kee, Arthur 
Kee, Lonnie L. 
Keller, Martin 
Keown, Fred L. 
Knight, Guy E. 
Lacey, Hey L. 
Lacy, William O. 
Ladyman, William M. 
Langley, Louis J. 
Lape, Walter 
Lawrence, Roy A. 
Lemons, Charles 
Lively, Ralph E- 
Long, Henry J. 
Lownsdale, Edgar 
Lonsdale, William 
Lunyon, Alfred J. 
McCrackew, James O. 
McElyea, Sammie A. 
McGinnis, Floyd 
McKenzie, Beecher 

G. 
Malone, George 
Manning, Joseph H. 
Meharg, John 
Miller, Amon E. 
Miller, George D. 



Montcalm, Lavel L. 
Montgomery, EHsha 
Montgomery, John B. 
O'Hare, Sidney 
Osborne, John 
Osborne, Walter G. 
Patrick, William R. 
Perkins, Charlie A. 
Phillips, Jesse W. 
Philpot, Paul P. 
Phoenix, Oscar 
Pipkin, Porter J. 
Pleasant, Buren S. 
Pleasant, Olin B. 
Potts, George W. 
Price, Roy 
Pride, Gorda R. 
Reed, William F. 
Ricks, Ora R. 
Ricks, Ray A. 
Roberson, Willie 
Seisms, Louis 
Shepard, Fuller 
Smith, Fred 
Smith, Rush S. 
Spink, John L. 
Teel, Thomas E. 
Tucker, Elmer 
Tucker, William R. 
Veteto, Irwin 
Vincent, Delmer F. 
Vinson, Jake 
Vinyard, Clyde 
Wallace, Otto 
Watson, David D. 
Weaker, Robinson C. 
Weathers, Henry H. 
Weeks, Jacob H. 
White, Earl F. 
Williams, James F. 
Williams, Wylie L. 
Wilson, Robert M. 



SECOND MISSOURI INFANTRY BRIGADE 



Brigadier General 
A. B. Donnelly, 
Commanding 



Major, ^^ _ . 
William H. Cocke, 
Adjutant 
1st Lieutenant, 

August M. Goesslmg, 
Aide-de-Camp 



1st Lieutenant, 

Robert A. Roblee, 

Aide-de-Camp 



FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY 



Lieutenant Colonel, 
Stephen E. Lowe, 
Commanding 

""fcan B. Comfort 
Major, 

Joseph J. Loch 



FIELD AND STAFF 

St. Louis 

Major, 

John F. Car mack 

1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt , 

Roland R. Reinholdt 

1st Lieut. & Bn Adjt., 

Clarence W. Schnell 



1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt., 
Charles A. Marquis 

1st Lieutenant, 

Thomas D. Kennedy, 
Chaplain. 



HEADQUARTEES COMPANY 

St. Louis 



Captain & Adjutant, 

Harry K. Lyons 
Rgt. Sergeant Major, 

Bauer, Theodore 

Bn. Sergeant Major, 

Fellows, Harry O. 

Bn. Sergeant Major, 

Holland, Lynn H. 

1st Sergeant, 

Anderson, Robert 
Color Sergeants:. 
Bacon, Benjamin b. 
Kohn, Sol 
Mess Sergeant, 

Andres, Edward L. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Messmer, Albert 
Stable Sergeant, 

Krechel, Henry Jr. 
Sergeant, 

Gross, William H, 
Cooks: , ^ 

Clymer, Richard 
Parlin, Edison 
Band Leader, 

McClure, John H. 



Asst. Band Leader 

Manhart, Edward 
Sergeant Bugler, 

Wild, Walter J. 
Band Sergeants: 

Baker, Floyd 

Homan, Fred 
Band Corporals: 

Benne, Harry F. 

Heidbreder, Alphonse 

Lindsay, Lev 
Moore, Clayton ±1. 
1st Class Musicians: 
Gerard, Oliver 
Sharp, Jackson W. 
''d Class Musicians: 
Douglas, Alonzo E. 
Heidbreder, Henry A. 
Jacobs, Monroe 

Miggs, George H. 
3rd Class Musicians: 

Berryman, Robert t,. 

Durfee, George 

Gerard, John B Jr. 

Heim, Vernon b. 

Kuellmer, Adolph 

Lawder, Ray 

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McDonald, James B. 
Manne, Max 
Meehan, James f. 
Pollak, Edward 
Schrader, Gerald J. 
Spargo, John W. 
Tucker, WiUiam 
1st Class Private 

Pope, Walter C. 
Privates: 

Bartle, Eugene B. 

Clover, John D. 

Dyer, Gerald B. 

Fetcher, Robert 1. 

Florreich, Edward 

Grosse, Fred K. 
Hertwig, Carl 1. 
Justice, Martin 
Larson, Oscar W. 
McCoy, Hugh P. 
Morrow, Cresent ^. 
O'Brien, Thomas J. 
Ryan, Joseph M. 
Schneeberger, Fred 

C. 

Woodruff, Lawrence 

F. 



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Captain, 

Emmett H. Cocke 
2d Lieutenant, 

Homer C. Venable 
Rgt. Supply Sergeant, 

Miller, Ira A. 
Rgt. Supply Sergeant., 

Amos, Earle H. 
Rgt. Supply Sergeant, 

Boemler, Augusta 11. 
1st. Sergeant, 

Krechel, Henry 
Mess Sergeant, 

Meysenburg, Hugh K. 
Stable Sergeant, 

King, John A. 
Corporal, 

Caldwell, Arthur II. 



SUPPLY COMPANY 

St. Louis 

Cook, 

Peterson, Edward V. 
Saddler, 

Bailey, Thomas 
Horseshoer, 

Redman, Russell R. 
Wagoners: 

Cadwallader, Carroll 

Craig,' John J. 

Dixon, Leroy C. 

Donlon, Clarence 

Edwards, George H. 

Evans, Thomas H. 

Gaffney, Frank J. 

Grady, Patrick 

Hagemeyer, Alfred M. 

Hanson, Walter L. 

Hart, Frank H. 



Ilickey, John M. 
Hickman, Clinton J. 
Hines, Edward 
Hoppe, Gu3 
Jackson, Leslie 
Kelly, Gus 
Lajeuness, Batissc 
Lajeuness, Joseph 1>. 
Litchtenberg, Edwin F 
Lofton, John M. 
McMeanmy, George 

M. 
Mitchell, Joseph A. 
O'Connell, Richard 
Osborn, Kennett A. 
Pribble, Sidney W. 
Richard, Mat 
Wallace, William J. 
Woods, Anthony J. 



MACHINE GUN COMPANY 

St. Louis 



Captain, 

John M. Holmes 
1st Lieutnant, 

Edward H. Price 
2d Lieutenant,, 

Otis E. Keough 
2d Lieutenant, 

Donald H. Dunavant 
1st Sergeant, 

Bigaouette, Martin J. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Barker, Arthur M. 
Supply Sergeant, 

West, Thomas F. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Schiebalj Leonard E. 
Sergeants: 

Schuster, Georg A. 

Harrison, Lee R., Jr. 

McFarland, Frank R. 

Schulze, Benedict 

Marsch, Paul 

Burt, Farlow 

Jolley, Russell 
Corporals: 

Eliot, William C. 

Beste, William H. 

Matlack, Fred 

Wright, Charles L. 

Fields, Charles 



Baumhoff, Frederick 
W. 

Bryan, Philip D. 

Leavitt, David F. 
Cooks: 

Mogannam, George 

Bilpush, George 
Horseshoer, 

Beahan, Elmer A. 
Mechanics: 

Moeller, Edward H. 

Stevens, Floyd E. 
Bugler, 

Ryan, Francis X. 
1st Class Privates: 

Eckert, Edward H. 

Eddy, John J. Jr. 

Gupton, Theodore 

Grammer, Alva W. 

Harkins, Ward R. 

Shoultz, Dan M. 

Singer, Isidor 

Starke, Dick D. 

Stratton^ Reus S. 

Wagoner, Forrest J. 

Zimmerman, Wesley 
J. 
Privates: 

Barnett, Dennis 

Barrett, Herbert J, 

BehrenSj Ray R. 



Blust, Julius 
Blust, Milton J. 
Brush, Gilmore A. 
Chape, George D. 
Connor, Elbert 
Crane, Walter A. 
Deering, John M. 
Ferguson, Robert 
Field, David I. 
Foehrunger, Floyd E- 
Fowler, Green C. 
Fox, Walter W. 
Gupton, William L. 
Hatfield,. William P 
Heim, Elmer L. 
Hoerner, Julius H. 
Horsefield, Russell J. 
Hubenthal, Charles A 
Hughes, Walt R. 
Kaiser, William E. 
Leyden, Edward P. 
Lublock, Winans 
Murphy, Robert E. 
O'Brien,^ Gregory 
Orr, Isaac C. 
Pride, Howard D. 
Rasp, Oliver E. 
Reinholz, Walter B. 
Robertson, Robert 
Ronat, Arthur 
Singleton, James R. 
Stewart, Ray 
Thompson, William F. 
Weber, Maurice O. 
Wilson, Shirley 



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Captain, 

George W. Stewart 
1st Lieutenant, 

James L. D. Rodgers 
2d Lieutenant, 

Frank D. C. Sullivan 
1st Sergeant, 

Abernathy, John W. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Burns, Roy P. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Jantzen, Leo L. 
Sergeants: 

Heath, Clyde K. 

Page, James T. 

Hemke, Walter A. 

Kammerer, Harry O. 

Grodsky, Albert A. 

Lockhart, Edward M. 

Wilson, Ernest R. 
Corporals: 

Doherty, Francis J. 

Mueller, Carl H. 

Kurtzeborn, Edward 
H. 

McCommis, William 
C. 

Ryan, Leonard 

Castles, Don F. 

Greggerson, Horace 
G. 

Greggerson, Bennet 
E. 

Lloyd, Robert B. 

Lloyd, Benjamin II. 

Zimmer, Carl 

Hilgemann, William 
A. 

Sparks, Richard O. 

Hopkins, Lesley B. 

Murphy, Joseph C. 

Bertolino, Alexander 

Cooks: 

Bein, Arthur 

Hasse, Anthony C. 

Knoll, Roy J. 
Buglers: 

Herr, Elmer P. 

Tucker, Lloyd A. 
Mechanics: 

Keithley, Howard 

Pataky, Steve 
1st Class Privates: 

Allen, William H. 



COMPANY A 

St. Louis 

Bennett, Clarence E- 
Broadway, Basil P. 
Bruce, George W. 
Crawford, Samuel M. 
Darby, Floyd R. 
DeWitt, Richard W. 
Ford, Francis 
Frohn, Jake 
Gilbers, Joseph 
Hisserich, Charles H. 
Horten, Bernard 
Howland, Louis P. 
Jopps, Charles 
Karl, Frank J. 
Kennedy, Michael J. 
Kruk, Joseph 
Mathews', Louis C. 
Nelson, Eugene H. 
Potter, Harry N. 
Ritchey^ Burt 
Roberts, Irl E. 
Robinson, Harold F. 
Sanders, Thomas R. 
Sutter, Oscar 
Vick, Lloyd H. 
Wolff, Joseph 
Privates: 

Allen, Frank M. 
Angermund, Frank J. 
Ault, Walter W. 
Baker, Reuben B. 
Bishop, Henry C. 
Blazek, Joseph 
Boyd, John W. 
Buren, Robert L. 
Busher, Harry C. 
Callahan, Sidney 
Callaway, William D. 
Carroll, Lawrence A. 
Corrigan, Andrew B, 
Courson, Ray F. 
Daniel, Silas Q. 
Davidson, Stewart 
Davis, Cushman F. 
DeWitt, Clark C. 
DeWitt, Paul G. 
Dickens, Thomas A. 
Doherty, James H. 
Eichenseer, Valentine 
Eudaley, Harry N. 
Evanger, George A. 
Factor, Raymond J. 
Furling, William 
Garrett, Silas 
Grayson, Ellis 
Handing, Louis 
Haneline, John 
Harbaugh, William 



Hargis, Thomas E. 
Hawkins, Clarence E. 
Hayes, Morris 
Hepps, Carl C. 
Holeman, Ed. S. P. 
Jett, Oscar H, 
Kable, Michael 
Keating, Timothy A. 
Keller, Jewell 
Landon, Elmer M. 
Lane, Sidney P. 
Lubic, William S. 
jMagnusson, Gustaf H. 
Marks, James W. 
Matthews, Stanley A. 
Metcalfe, Robert G. 
Meyer, Charles 
Milhausen, Homer W. 
Morgan, William G. 
Morris, James E. 
Musgrove, Charles A. 
O'Connell, Oliver 
Olson, Robert L. 
Powers, Thomas J. 
Reardon^ Steve 
Robinson, Isaac D. 
Rohlfing, Albert F. 
Sachs, Charles 
Sappington, Charles R. 
Sawyer, John R. 
Schlumberger, Robert 

L. 
Schmidt^ Otto P. 
Schuler, Leslie E. 
Short, Walter L. 
Smith, Arthur M. 
Snell, Richard W. 
Spargo, William J. 
Stackhouse, Leo E. 
Stewart, Carl C. 
Stires, Sylvester 
Stone, John R. 
SuUivaUj Fletcher E- 
Summer, Charles TL 
Toy, Harry C. 
Van Valer, William 

R. 
Voelker, Claude F. 
Wald, John P. 
Wania, Stanley 
Webster, Raymond R. 
Welch, Carl E. 
Wernicker, Fred J. 
White, Roy 
Williams, Talton 
Wilson, Clarence 
Woodson, Henry J. 
Zousch, Alphonsus L. 



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COMPANr B 
St. Louis 



Captain, 

Frank R. Larrimore 
1st Lieutenant, 

Samuel F, Merriam 
2d Lieutenant, 

Edgar H. B. Loehr 
1st Sergeant, 

Brown, Joseph A. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Hemp, Joseph L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Petsch, Charles H. 
Sergeants: 

Conklin, Chester T. 

Bowman, Harry 

Cox, William A. 

Boyer, George H. 

Fishwick, George \V. 

Coulter, Robert L. 
Corporals: 

Pritz, Eric 

Gardner, Alfred W. 

Weinberg, Samuel 

Swoboda, William O. 

Held, William R. 

Powers, Walter 

Renter, Leslie 

Knoll, Roy 

Wilbur, East 

McMahon, Joseph 

Bewig, Robert 

Connelly, Clement V. 

Williams, Jesse J. 

Crabtree^ Chester D. 

Crabtree, Jennings D, 

Higgins, John F. Jr. 
Cooks: 

Schultz, William L. 

Hively, Albert W. 

York, Claude M. 
Buglers: 

Davidson, Lee R. 

Harris, Samuel D. 
Mechanics: 

Barker, Ben F. 

Gayeski, Theodore E- 
1st Class Privates: 

Candola, Frank 

Cox, Dean G. 

Cunningham, James 
H. 

Darr. Charles W. 

Friederiche, Julius O. 

Fromm, Victor A. 

Hoskinson, Buell E. 



Kenealy, John F. 
Kent, Earl M. 
Kramer, Lester W. 
Loehr, George A. 
Moylan, William P. 
McFatridge, Robert 

R. 
O'Neill, Henry N. 
Robertson, Laurie B. 
Sprague, George M. 
Stiritz, Walter J. 
Willis, Leo F. 
Young, Lucilius A. 

Privates: 

Adams, Leslie E. 
Ambrose, George L. 
Andrus, Leonard B. 
Atwood, Edward 
Boyd, Thomas W. 
Brady, Francis X. 
Bradshaw, Harry E. 
Brown, Harry E. 
Browne, John L. 
Buchanan, Loy 
Buddie, William E. 
Carter, Rolla F. 
Chew, Richard F. 
Collart, John A. 
Constantino, John 
Cord, Jesse O. 
Cox, Roy E. 
Curvin, Charles L. 
Dailey, Joseph P. 
Dickson, Bennett T. 
Dotson, Robert 
Elder, Hugh A. 
Elkins, Cyrus R. 
Elvin, Perry A. 
Faina, Francis V. 
Fink, Eddie 
Fink, Tony 
Fore, Robert S. 
Gillespie, William F. 
Gould, Samuel H. 
Gramlich, Charles B. 
Green, Frank 
Gregory, Sylvester S. 
Grotpeter, Stephen J. 
Hall, Matthew W. 
Hamtil, John F. 
Harper, Albert E. 
Hazelwood, Cyan F. 
Hefley, William T. 
Herrell, Raymond 
Jones, Paul F. 
Kaddell, Paul F. 
Keane, James 
Klepper, James M. 



Kopp, Herman 
Krause, Joseph 
Koger, Harry 
Lagana, John R. 
Leavitt, Samuel R. 
Lorts, Austin W. 
Luback, John 
McCutcheon, John A. 
McDowell, William 

L. 
Mallard, Leo J. 
Mead, William E. 
Mercer, John 
Mercer, William C. 
Miley, Jesse R. 
Miller, Charles 
Moore, Ralph J. 
Nay, Murle D, 
Nitschki, Charles 11. 
Nolen, John L. 
O'Connor, Merrill S. 
O'Malley, Walter 
Parker, Richard D. 

Pennifold, George E. 

Poison, Roy S. 

Pressley; Clarence 

Priebe, Walter L. 

Ritchey, Everett 

Robertson, Harold C. 

Roe, Forest L. 

Rogers, Paul M. 

Rushton, Frank C. 

Sandfelder, Max 

Scott, Frank E. 

Schmidt, Philip H. 

Schnur, William J. 

Sexton, Clarence F. 

Short, Harlan 

Silverstein, Max 

Skelton, Joseph 

Snow, Edgar 

Steinkamper, Harry 
W. 

Steele, Roy E. 

Stein, August H. 

Stephens, William A. 

Stone, Riley 

Strader, Harvey E. 

Sullivan, Pearl 

Swift, Raymond T. 

Tungate, Charles 

Van Schoelandt, Fred 
W. 

Vaughn, Thad 

Willoughby, George 
P. 

Wills, Robert H. 

Wright, Charles E. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Captain, 

Thomas A. Dooley. Jr. 
1st Lieutenant, 

William S. Robinson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Walter F. Vieh 
1st Sergeant, 

Schulz, William F. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Donnell, Warren E, 
Supply Sergeant, 

Derbes, Ralph 
Sergeants: 

Kiely, Ralph J. 

Smith, Christopher 

McCarl, Elmer H. 

Shannon, Hugh P. 

Williams, Edgar J. 
Corporals: 

Cox, John B. 

Corn, Elmer 

Scott, Archie D. 

Klein, John M. 

Plummer, Thomas H. 

Haverstick, Walter W. 

McAnally, Samuel W. 

Goff, David D. 

Woolievor, William A. 

Flori, Oscar A. 

Harkey, George 

Stephens, Gradon L. 
Cooks: 

Duncan, Wilbern 

Skinner, James W. Jr. 

Falter, Gustav A. 
Mechanics: 

Omohundro, Ralph 
A. 

Durham^ Clarence 
Buglers: 

Smith, James A. 

Hill, Richard K. 
1st Class Privates: 

Birke, Thomas 

Carey, John W. Jr. 

Grimm, John C. 

King, Nelson A. 

Lewis, John R, 

Links, John A. 

Rudroff, John C. 
Privates: 

Ahner, Arthur A. 

Allen, Olin C. 



COMPANY C 
St. Louis 

Allen, Theodore 
Andert, 'Thomas E. 
Baker, James 
Bartlett, Wm. P. 
Baum, William T. 
Behrmari, August M. 
Bender, Walter W. 
Bogie, John E. 
Brueggeman, Fred A. 
Brueggman, William 

F. 
Butler, James J. 
Cahill, John S. 
Campbell, Charles 
Carione, Anthony 
Clayton, William P. 
Cooper, Henry C. 
Crean, Andrew J. 
Dodd, Homer B. 
Dodson, Clarence G. 
Dunajcik, Martin 
Durham. John T. 
Eaton, Herman E. 
Elfgen, Joseph L. 
Falter, Elmer G. 
Ferry, Alpha P. 
Follette, Darwin M. 
Frentzel, Paul J. 
Geatley, John C. 
Gelbach, Herbert 
GillespiCj David W, 
Goebel, George 
Green, Thomas 
Grimm, Michael 
Gunither, Luther A. 
Haley, Alfred B. 
Ham, Frank C. 
Higgins, Thomas M. 
Hillier, Frederick H. 
Hook, Louis 
Hopson, John C. 
Huck, George C. 
Husley, Harry G. 
Hunter, Wayne T. 
■Jackson, Raymond 
Johnson,. James L. 
Kaiser, Harry D. 
Kanem, Joseph 
Kirsch, Leon P. 
Kizer, Louis E- 
Kopsco, John 
Krebs, Otto H. 
Krepps, Bryan J. 



Kuhlage, Vincent G. 
Leffingwell, Marion D. 
Leonard, Wilbur 
Lewis, Clarence L. 
Linden, Robert 
McCarthy, John 
McGee, Edward 
McLean, Harry E. 
McMahon, Henry 
Malley, Alexander J. 
Maxwellj Edward J. 
Meckein, Charles A. 
Mellick, Louis J. 
Mohen, Edward F. 
Mulkey, Max 
Mulkey, Von 
Munger, Eugene M. 
Munroe, Scott 
Nesselhauf, Gregory 

P. 
O'Hearne, Walter G. 
Otte, Adolph W. 
Palmer, Perry W. 
Petty, Maurice E. 
Price, Thomas 
Pronsketes, Dominkas 
Pruski, Walter 
Quigley, Edward J. 
Reese, Julius 
Reining,. Edward 
Richardson, George L. 
Richardson, Harold A. 
Roberts, Doma R. 
Roderick, Percy E. 
Roosken, William J. 
Ruwe, Arthur H. 
Schmittj Valentine 
Schmitz, Ferdinand A. 
Schneider, August J. 
Sidman, Conway J. 
Smith, Elmer 
Strauss, Samuel J. 
Tapscott, George C. 
Tuma, William 
VinchicK, Toma 
Vlasak, Charles W. 
Vrydage, Joseph 
Ward, Eugene W. 
Warner, Charles 
Weiner, Frank J. 
Woodman, Harry 
Wyatt, Howard C. 
Zeigler, James J. 



Captain, 

Gunther Meier 



COMPANY D. 

St. Louis 

1st Lieutenant, 

George A. Bilsbarrow 



2d Lieutenant, 

George H. W. Rausch- 
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1st Sergeant, 

May, Beverly D. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Youngerman, Guy A. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Stucker, Frank 
Sergeants: 

MacMellon, Harry 

Jones, Frank X. 

Coflf, Edward J. 

Cosgrove, John D. 

Wehrenberg, Harry I^. 

Little, Charles M. 

Travis, Robert. F. 
Corporals: 

Fbling, Raymond C. 

Fulgham, Thomas 

Fagan, Raymond 

Kugler, Rudolph 

Albert, Chester 

Gruner, John K. 

Galvin, James J. 

Mathews, Joseph T. 

Myers, Eugene J. 

Rinehart, Sam L. 

Ackerman, Christie 

Chilton, John A. 

Gribble, John K. 

Motts, Gus 

Hill, Charles D, 
Cooks: 

Dixon, Harry I. 

Jones, George W. 

Lewis, Walter 
Mechanics: 

Franklin, Harry I. 

Braunbeck, George F,. 
Buglers: 

Kilpatrick, Joseph 

Laspe, Carl A. 
1st Class Privates: 

Berresheim, Robert B. 
F. 

Brem, Roy F. 

Childress, John D. 

Fsphorst, George H. 

Little, Wallace 

Mockler^ William 

Neis, Walter 

Petering, Wm. H. 

Pfeiffer, Martin G. 

Porter, Charles I. 

SchremR, Eugene J. 



Simmons, Grant L. 
Snider, James F. 
Spencer, Irving G. 
Todd, Clarence J. 
Privates: 

Adams, John Q. 
Addison, Lyman M. 
Allen, Daniel A. 
Albus, Claude L. 
Anderson, Malcolm 
Badock, George 
Benson, Richard C. 
Bettag, John 
Bierman, Henry E. 
Blaylock, Richard 
Brand, John H. 
Bruer, Otis F. 
Brown, William E. 
Burns, Victor L. 
Burnside, John T. 
Caperhart, Herman D. 
Charboneau, Leroy L. 
Craine, Earnest D. 
Dalberg, Rudolph L- 
Davidson, James F. 
DeHay, Grover C. 
Denny, Everett B. 
Dillman, Simmy 
Dwan, Joseph P. 
Eads, Jesse J. 
Eberhart, Frank 
Elmore, John F, 
Elmore, William T. 
England, James Arthur 
Ferguson, Carl H. 
Findley, William 
Finney, Thomas 
Freeman, William J. 

B. 
Gibson, John M. 
Gififen, Fred 
Gimpel, Charles E. 
Glover, Fred A. 
Goodrich, Dick D. 
Harder, Roy 
Hart, Elmer 
Hart, William 
Hausman, Walter 
Hawkins, Charles F. 
Hawkins, Lonnie 
Hill, Preston J. 
Holt, Newman 
Hood, Orville A. 
Hultquist, John W. 



Huskey, Amiel A. 

Johnson^ Everett 

Karch, Elmer 

Kitchen, Herman W. 

Kriegbaum, Louis E. 

Kronenberger, Rich- 
ard J. 

Lamoriaux, Harry 

Ledbetter, Edward 

Ledbetter, Luther 

Long, Edward L. 

Long, Roscoe 

Lovelace, William E. 

McColpin, Floyd 

McCoy, James F. 

Mclnerney, Michael 
T. 

Magnusson, George E- 

Manus, Herrol J. 

Martin, Walter J. 

Medler, Tom 

Meredith, Roy F. 

Miller, Guy 

Oburn, Albert R. 

Oliver, John 

Patton, William F, 

Rabe, Henry E. 

Reichelt, Arnold G. 

Reser, Alfred W. 

Ruckman Rupert R. 

Rushing, Joe 

Sabo, John 

Schute, William L. 

Scott, John H. 

Shoemaker, John 

Smiley, Samuel L. 

Souders, Charles A. 

Stagner, Andrew A. 

Stanley, Warren P. 

Strange, Russell E. 

Talbot, Hale E. 

Talghadar, Edward 

Taylor, Victor 

Walk, Paul 

Walters, William W. 

Warnhoff, Edward H. 

WarnhofF, Herman C. 

Wilcox, John G. Jr. 

Wiley, Albert L 

Wood, William J. 

Wyatt, Raymond A. 

Yates, William A. 

Young, Joseph L. 

Zimmerman, George 



Captain, 

Clarence J. Sodemann 
1st Lieutenant, 

James A. Kinsella 



COMPANY E 
St. Louis 

2d Lieutenant, 

Vernon McC. Parkin- 
son 
1st Sergeant, 

Sears, Gradwell L. 



Mess Sergeant, 
Koen, Ross M. 

Supply Sergeant, 
LaPage, Albert L. 



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Sergeants: 

Flood, Joseph P. 

McCorkle, Carroll G. 

Hartmann, Edward A. 

Helmar, Frank G. 

Cortright, Ralph E. 

Bates, Percy J. 
Corporals: 

Meier, Herbert C. 

Shockley, Hal 

Pfeifer, Walter O. E. 

Svatek, Martin J. 

Dunsford, Clarence C. 

Maune, Martin 

Saucier, Benjamin H. 

Kirby, Alonzo L. 
Cooks: 

Ford, Frank 

Cammi, Bartolo W. 

Zack, George 
Buglers: 

Gallagher, John E- 

Thomas, Henry P. 
Mechanic, 

Spain, Leon 
1st Class Privates: 

Beard, Clifford A. 

Boyer, James A. 

Brooks, Norman E. 

Fitzgerald, Joseph 

Hecke, Louis 

Merkle, Clarence J. 

Mullins, Cornelius A. 

Quasegarth, Edmund 
A. 

Senn, Thomas 

Servan, Richard 

Sutton, Gilbert L. 

Wilson, Harry 

Withers^ Gilbert 

Yeager, Beeman C. 
Privates: 

Armstrong, Albert 

Auller, Henry 

Barth, Edward O. 

Boerschig, George F, 

Bennett, Herman 

Borman, Joseph 

Bourisaw, Joseph E. 



Bowen, Stanley 
Bozarth, Emery E. 
Brown, Joseph 
Buchanan, Thomas K, 
Butler, Edward E. 
Cardwell, Carbette L. 
Chapman, Russell A. 
Coleman, Joseph B, 
Cordia, Michael 
Gushing, Clarence C. 
Cutteridge, Albert 
Cop eland, Ridley 
Daniel, Edward E. 
Daugherty, Thomas T. 
Doyle, George E. 
Enge, Michael 
Ferrell, John E. 
Flynn, Vivian A. 
Gaskill, Cleve R. 
Gilgenberg, Frank O. 
Goebbels, Harry P. 
Gorman, Noah V. 
Gorman, Warren P. 
Graham, Louisious P. 
Greenstreet, Clarence 

A. 
Gripp, Robert 
Gruenewald, Otto 
Godat, Louis H. 
Hall, Elmer E. 
Hane, Hubert H. 
Hansel, Virgil M. 
Hare, Arthur P. 
Hart, Edward G. 
Heltzel, John J. 
Herlits, Andrew A. 
Hill, Harry C 
Hill, Thomas D. 
Hippler, Lawrence C. 
Holtsclaw, Fred 
Holtsclaw, William C. 
Horton, Norman B. 
Houston, Glenn 
Huebner, Louis A. 
Jones, Arthur W. 
Joseph, John S. 
Juzcek, Ostap 
Jeude, Lawrence F. 
Kleykamp, Victor E. 
Kraleman, Henry P. 
Krewinkel, Joseph L- 



Leach, Edgar F. 
Lvsakowski, Albert 

'Reid 
McCauley, Andrew J. 
McKenna, William 
McMahon, John J. 
Marlin, Marion H. 
Mayfield, Fred 
Mayhill, Melville M. 
Maupin, Henry E. 
Meier, Clarence T. 
Meinhardt, John M. 
Miles, Robert D. 
Miller, George W. 
Miller, Lloyd E. 
Moon, Lacy R. 
Moore, John P. 
Norris, Clifford O. 
Peabody, Sterling M. 
Peper, Edward 
Peters, Henry W. 
Price, Edward O. 
Pruitt, Robert F. 
Plouder, Henry H. 
Polette, Daley 
Quasebarth, Norman 
Reid, Reinzie B. 
Roper, Irwin C. 
Rose, Virgil 
Russell, James R. 
Sacer, Max 
Sartori, John 
Saucier, Charles C. 
Schatzman, Lawrence 

L. 
Schaper, Frank A. 
Schilling, Janies S. 
Scale, Louis 
Spieler, Arthur L. 
Stroupe, William L. 
Stubbs, Jesse J. 
Teeter, Allen R. 
Teeter, James H. 
Thomas, Edwin H. 
Veal, James Wesley 
Visnewsky, Cestaw 
Weineke, John W. 
Williams, Arthur H. 
Wimmer, William 
Withers^ Oscar L. 
Zeiser, William 



COMPANY F 
St. Louis 



Captain, 

Edwin M. Todd 
1st Lieutenant, 

Fred W. Forgus 
2d Lieutenant, 

John R. Moll 



1st Sergeant, 
Schmidt, Irvin 

Mess Sergeant, 
Sherrel, Charles 

Supply Sergeant, 
Krudop, Harry J. 



Sergeants: 

Birch, John L. 
Hogrebe, Amor C. 
Weatherby, James IT. 
Ilorack," Edmund \\'. 
McNulty, Joseph J. 



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Lanning, Livingston 

Long, Herman A. 
Corporals: 

McCall, Frank E. 

Warren, Clyde C. 

Olson, Charles 

Dann, Erwin L. 

Lohkamp, Charles W. 

Richards, Paul J. 

Pool, Martin B. 

Ousley, Harold P. 

Davis, Clifford L. 

Smith, Coit A. 

Smith, Malcolm W. 

Rogers, Joseph Earl 

Brooks, Harris 

Hunter, Eugene 
Cooks: 

Kastner, Julius 

Hammond, Osborne 
McK. 
Buglers: 

Coff, Joseph J. 

Sterloenz, Frederick 
H. 
Mechanic, 

McCombs, Sherman B. 
1st Class Privates: 

Allen, Jack B. 

Anderson, William 
H. 

Bauman, Samuel I. 

Ehlers, Arthur H. 

Elrod, Frank 

Fairchild, Fred T. 

Finkiewiez, John 

Forgus, Lawrence D. 

Goodman, Harry 

Hopkins, William 

Jones, Owen L. 

Meinberg, Edwin J. 

Mueller, Fred H. 

Nicholas, William 

Peters, Albert 

Roth, Charles J. 

Schomburg, Otto J. 

Theiss, John C. 



Privates: 

Albes, Henry T. 
Akiki, Joseph A. 
Bailey, John 
Baker, Glenn H. 
Basden, Glenn 
Batts, Joseph 
Beaver, Daniel B. 
Beaver, Isaac A. 
Bentley, George C. 
Bergerson, Arthur H. 
Boerner, Oliver L. 
Boland, Mathew J. 
Branson, David J. 
Brookes, William S. 
Butcher, Fred C. 
Capra, John 
Chasnick, Frank 
Chenot, August S. 
Clendenin, John H. 
Cockrell, Arthur R. 
Dalei, Tony 
Davis, Thomas 
Davis, Walter C. 
Dekorsky, Antony 
Diardano, Joe 
Dubach, Roy 
Eddington, Edgar R. 
Francis, William J. 
Gibbs, Guy S. 
Griffith, Ralph W. 
Gremmer, Leroy P. 
Haile, James G. 
Hall, Claude A. 
Hanna, Gyrias 
Harmon, Fred A. 
Hollerback, John 
Holzhauser, Anton 
Homann, Rudolph H. 
Jackson, Floyd W. 
Kamper, Russell F. 
Kehoe, Charles 
Kennway, Thomas E. 
King, Louis W. 
Lacey, Wilbur G. 
Lambert, Myron F. 



McCafferty, Russell 

L. 
McDaniel, Francis C. 
McDonnell, Joseph M. 
McKeen, Louis 
McVicar, Harold L. 
Masterson, Leo M. 
Mayes, Kenneth 
Michael, Wilbur E. 
Mobarak, Najab B. 
Moresi, Joseph 
Morley, Frank J. 
Murphy, Henry C. 
Myers, William Fuller 

Jr. 
Newberry, Ivan E. 
Nitzche, William W. 
O'Brien, Charles 
Oglesby, Charles E. 
Ousley, Glenn C. 
Palmer, Samuel E. 
Rabbitt, Robert E. 
Rainey, Forrest 
Rausch, John 
Ronsiek, Henry B. 
Russell, Loy 
Rymer, Charles B. 
Sanker, Louis 
Satterfield, Duerall C. 
Savage, David H. 
Scott, Cornelius F. 
Schaffer, Bernard A. 
Seaver, William C. 
Sheppard, Edward L. 
Shrewsbury, Rannie 

B. 
Smith, Walter R. 
Stubbs, James O. 
Tillman, William M. 
Tracy, Alonzo 
Walsh, Sterling 
Walsh, Joseph T. 
Ward, Albert McD. 
Weddle, Arthur 
Zagib, George F. 
Zagibo, Nakly T. 
Ziegler, Clarence C. 



Captain, 

Harry E. Sugden 
1st Lieutenant, 

Harry Koetting 
2d Lieutenant, 

George P, Kohlberg, 
Jr. 
1st Sergeant, 

John, George C. 
Aless Sergeant, 

Schoeppl, John 



COMPANY G 

St. Louis 

Supply Sergeant, 

Seeger. Phillip J. 
Sergeants : 

Nesselhauf, Frank J. 

Allen, Charles B. 

Haller, William T. 

Reynolds, William J. 

Ruby, Patrick H. 
Corporals: 

O'Neal, Franklin E. C. 

Wilkerson, Richard J. 



Heck, Karl G. 
Hein, George P. 
Haemerle, Albert J. 
Brown, Herbert 
Meyer, Walter F. 
Horvath, Gus 
Cooper, William W. 
Cuddy, Nelson D. 
Johnson, Edward O. 
Kruse, Karl 
Runge, William F. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Cooks : 

Hans, William E;. 

Klenke, Owen L. 

Wilhelm, Lawrence 
Buglers: 

Havens, James W. 

Wakeland, i^dward F. 
]\Iechanics : 

Lewis, Edwin H. 

McMasters, Theodore 
H. 
1st Class Privates: 

Anderson, Edward R. 

Bergmann, Wilbur 

Bidlingmeier, Oliver 

Bohrmann, Elmer J. 
Brown, Charles 
Brumley, Richard H. 
Cooke, Frederick V. 

P. 
Elliott, Ira N. 
Ellwood, Cecil J. 
Eyerkuss, Fred F. 
Gash, Percy M. 
Hewitt, John E. 
Klasing, Mathew C. 
Lehr, John M. 
Manheimer, Hughes 

Pfeil, Walter R. 
Rives, Lee J. 
Roy, Henry T. 
Saling, Thomas W. 
Sanguinette, Lloyd D. 
Sauer, Nick W. 
Stewart, Alonzo B. 
Stone, Richard L. 
Wakeland, Richard H. 
Wallace, Charles B. 
Willman, Oliver J. 
Privates: 

Andrews, James P. 



Archer, George W. 
Archer, Raymond W. 
Baluka, Alfred 
Becker, Charles A. 
Benz, Walter E. 
Berlin, Clay 
Biggs, Fred A. 
Bohrmann, Louis 
Carver, George W. 
Casciani, Joseph F. 
Charles, Edward T. 
Claiborne, Henry M. 
Craycroft, Arthur W. 
Dean, Perry ti. 
Dekum, Joseph F. 
Dicken, Isham S. 
Dodge, Gordon M. 
Dounell, Murray W. 
Dreyer, Wesley P. 
Dunivin, Arthur B. 
Ecker, Irving J. 
Edgar, Charles M. 
Edgar, William Z. 
Ely, Charles E. 
Faccaro, Joseph 
Farris, Gilbert T. 
Ferguson, George W. 
Fielder, Phillip W. 
Flynn, Richard B. 
Foster, Walter W. 
Fowler. William R. 
Golden, Raymond T. 
Gray, William D. 
Haenny, Tony P. 
Hawkins, Billie 
Hogan, William J. 
Hope, Norton C. 
Illsen, Walter R. 
Immell, Earl R. 
Ireland, Elmer 
James, Alphonso 
James, Charles L. 



Jeffries, Edwin H. 
Jones, Harry N. 
Jones, John R. 
King, John J. 
Kretschmar, Oscar R. 
Kuessner, Carl J. 
Lem, Ralph P. 
Lewis, George F. 
Londe, Sam 
Lundstrom, Ray 
Malley, Coney 
Meyer, Richard 
^lilsted, Harry S. 
Moore, William 
Neil, Ralph 
O'Brien, Edward S. 
Padgett, James E- 
Patterson, Everett 
Petrie, Lafayette E. 
Preiss, Edward H. 
Quick, Oscar L. 
Reid, George 
Reynolds, Archie F. 
Richard, Getth 
Ripley, Fred A. 
Runge, Raymond 
Schuler, John 
Scott, Fred M. 
Shelton, George W. 
Siemer, John F. 
Smith, Clyde 
Smith, Felix Hill 
Spiess, Charles 
Taylor, Virgil 
Vontocci, John 
Wahl, Milton J. 
Ward, August 
Webb, Vincent P. 
Whited, Alvin 
Wilhelm, Stanley W. 
Wilson, Mark 
Worrell, William L. 
Yount, Romie A. 



Captain, 

James M. McMahon 
1st Lieutenant, 

William J. McMahon 
1st Sergeant 

Schwarz, Paul S. 
Sergeants : 

Newman, Charles E. 

Kountz, Leo R. 

Wolfe, Walter K. 

Schroeder, Arden 

Coughlin, Edward 

Gerber, Edward 

Mues, John C. 
Corporals: 

Schlereth, Walter E. 



COMPANY H 

St. Louis 

Messmer, Mathew N. 
Wyne, Henry M. 
Petri, Roy R. 
Errett, Peter G. 
Von Land, George O. 
Davis, Frank R. 
Burke, John 
Diebling, George J. 
Cornell, George E. 
Herman, Nicholas N. 
Varwig, William H. 
Croft, George H. 
Woodall, Roland H. 
Siekman, Harold H. 
Buchanan, Roland W. 
Edwards, George 



Cooks : 

Kriner, Edward 

Ponce, John C. 

Genrich, Henry H. 
Buglers : 

Barbee, David B. 

Steffens, Henry E. 
Mechanic, 

Corcoran, Andrew J. 
1st Class Privates: 

Ashley, Wilbur 

Ball, Walter B. 

Benz, George 

Bloom, Philip McGee 

Boehm, Nevitt 

Burch, Anthony W. 



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Carroll, Roland 
Kdwards, Arthur J. 
Grupe, ijlmer IC. 
Hengesbach, Frank 
Hesser, Albert J. 
Keelan, James 
Kummer, Julius John 
lyight, Clarence 
Montrey, Henry M. 
Schad, John 
Voisen, William J. 
Webb, Harry E. 
Privates : 

Adams, Asa J, 
Arnold, Edward 
Basinger, Cecil S. 
Bryant, Melvin F. 
Bunk, Myles W, 
Burns, Samuel 
Cameron, Joshe N. 
Carroll, Leo J. 
Carroll, Omar 
Cleaver, Virgil 
Conway, John 
Cooper, James R. 
Coudy, Seward 
Crader, Slocum 
Curry, Ernest C. 
Danklef, Herman 
Davis, George C. 
Deaton, Illo M. 
De Suza, John Robert 
Dineen, Dennie E. 
Dorr, Fred M. 
Edwards, Frederick 
L. 



Eek, Landen 
Emerick, Lee W, 
England, John 
Flora, Forrest W. 
Forsythe, Hugh W. 
Frommelt, William A. 
Gates, Rietman C. 
Grant, Alva B. 
Gunn, Albert O. 
Hallemann, Joseph 
Hammett, James A. 
Hand, William 
Harness, Roy 
Harrison, Fred H, 
Harrison, Herman W. 
Heboid, Walter P. 
Heiken, Harry 
Hill, Walter L. 
Houze, Harry J. 
Hughes, Edward 
Hunsaker, Oscar 
Hunt, David 
Jaycox, Fred M. 
Johansson, Otto A. 
Jones, Edward M, 
Jones, William T. 
Keegan, Raymond P. 
Laird, Fred L. 
Leamy, Thomas J, 
McKay, James J. 
Martin, Richard H. 
Mayer, Andrew A. 
O'Rouke, Arnold 
O'Rouke, Robert 
Portell, Myrl G. 



Ratz, Raymond ). 
Reilly, Peter 
Reinagel, Eugene H. 
Reynolds, Joseph 
Ridgway, Edward C. 
Roberts, William L. 
Rohbacher, Peter 
Rounie, Holly 
Russell, Walter 
Rutherford, Edward 
Sapp, Bennett B. 
Sapp, Hobart 
Schrader, Edward 
Schulze, Gregory E. 
Series, Lewis O. 
Sevier, William F. 
Shaefer, Walter Lee 
Shawgo, Scott D. 
Smith, Rob 
Spoenermann, Her- 
man 
StefiF, Augustus E. 
Stevens, Anthony 
Stinson, Leo Francis 
Stolte, Charles E. 
Stone, William A. 
Surgeon, James R. 
Swailes, Guy 
Urban, John C. 
Ward, Walter 
Weber, Theodore G. 
Wegener, Robert H. 
Werner, Joseph A. 
Williams, Roy E. 
Wilson, Everett ly. 
Wright, Frank. 



Captain, 

Alexander R. Skinker 
1st Lieutenant, 

Ralph D. Oldham 
2d Lieutenant, 

Roy G. Winzenburg 
1st Sergeant, 

Kayser, William 
Mess Sergeant, 

Watson Willard W. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Miller, Roy M. 
Sergeants : 

Wiemans, Clarence 
Gilmore 

Kraunsnick, Walter S. 

Hoffman, John A. 

Sorenson, Hans K, 

Fehling, Harry W. 

Sims, Clyde 

Britton, Joseph 

Shadle, Walter S. 



COMPANY I 

St. Louis 

Corporals: 

Muren, Edward 

Steffan, Henry 

Taylor, Thomas A. 

Loughran, Albert J. 

Oldfather, Pearl 

Tegethoff, Edward 

Pettus, Leslie A. 

Hall. Harry P. 

Ferber, Troy 

Canman, Louis P. 

Ellis, George D. 

Carmack, Edward S. 

Biederman, Willis F, 

Dorst, Edward 

Littlefield, Charles C. 

Seemayer, Albert 

Weir, David I. 
Cooks : 

Siebenmann, Rudolph 
W. 

Berry, Christian A. 

Holmberg, Edward I. 
Reschbacher, Harry 



Mechanics : 

Weber, Alfred 

Smith, William H. 
Buglers : 

Richards, Peter 

Miles, George A. 
1st Class Privates: 

Adams, Louis K. 

Adams, Samuel C. 

Bagley, Harry 

Callier, Dell R. 

Cameron, Angus J. 

Carroll, John H. 

Dean, Howard G. 

Eckhardt, William G. 

Feld, George 

Hanretty, George E. 

Harrington, William 
L. 

Hartmann, William 

TTiggins, Cornelius J. 

Hoffman, Robert C. 

Jablonski, John J. 

Johnson, Frank 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Johnson, Walter L. 
Massingham, George 
Mee, John J. 
Miller, Theodore B. 
Page, Charles A. 
Paprosky, Michael, M. 
Pickett, Minard E. 
Robben, Henry B. 
Sims, Mark V. 
Stark, Morris J. 
Strachan, Harley A. 
Watson, Cedric H. 
Privates : 

Amend, Irwin 
Arning, Elmer 
Baker, David Paul 
Bardgett, Alfred L. 
Bayless, Roy B. 
Beahan, Jack W. 
Benson, Guy A. 
Boucherie, John W. 
Bright, Archie G. 
Conover, Charles C. 
Cook, Howard L. 
Covert, Robert W. 
Dimitry, John A. 
DuBose, Sidney C. 
Dunton, Richard 
Eads, James M. 
Eason, Elmer S. 
Elfrink, Frank J. 
Foerstel, Frank Z. 



P'orbes, Louis 
Freeman, Roy L. 
Friend, Harold L. 
Fuelsch, Arthur 
Gossett, William F. 
Gowans, George J. 
Hayes, William J. 
Heade, Joseph D. 
Helfrick, Marion 
Hofman, Lee J. 
Howard, Hobert W. 
Hudson, Elmer 
Jeck, Gilbert C. 
Jewell, Arnold B. 
Joflfray, Clarence L. 
Kern, Urban P. 
Kiehnal, William L. 
Kinealy, Daniel P. 
Kitchell, Roy C. 
LaBruyer, Leo H. 
LaBruyer, Noah F. 
Loane, Albert 
Lockwood, Harry E. 
McClanahan, Albert 

L. 
IMeier, Harry G. 
Meier, William 
Meyer, Leslie O. 
Meyer, Paul 
Miller, Chestine W, 
Miller, Clarence E. 
Mitas, August 
jNEoeller, Gussie 



Needham, James R. 
Northcutt, Ray A. 
Ochsner, Erwin C. 
Parnell, Henry L. 
Pennick, Roger C. 
Pierce, Henry 
Pierson, David H. 
Plueck, John H. 
Pratzki, Adam 
Reynolds, Lloyd 
Rosa, Bert 
Rosa, Marcus J. 
Rubottom, Ray C. 
Schergen, Marion J. 
Shinkle, Earl 
Shinkle, James E. 
Smith, Clarence L. 
Smith, Edward J. 
Spohr, Robert 
Stark, Kirby M. 
Stewart, Edward P. 
Thompson, Dewey G. 
Thomure, Ferdinand 

Wa'dlow, Halla 
Walters, Alexander 
Walter, Maurice G. 
Walton, Darrahl Dean 
Whaley, George M. 
White, Charles C. 
Wilkinsin, Thomas E. 
Wohlt, Philip C. 
Zinkgraf, James F. 



Captain, 

Fred A. Bottger, 
1st Lieutenant, 

William F. Sewell, Jr. 
2d Lieutenant, 

Austin W. Bottger, 
1st Sergeant, 

Scrafton, Wallace T. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Ligon, Paul M. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Magnolo, America 
Sergeants : 

Pierce, Walter 

Robbins, Leonard W. 

Berkman, Raymond 

Markle, Lorain R. 

Daly, Trent A. 

Strother, Clarence R. 

Neville, Patrick 
Corporals : 

Dedert, Edward F. 

Kriwanek, Frank F. 

Kuntz, John C. 

Mueller, Otto P. 

Pipe, Charles D. 

Stewart, John G. 



COMPACT K 

St. Louis 

Richter, Fred W. 

LaMear, Robert E. 

Wieden, August 

Prevallet, Henry C. 

Rozier, Ralph R. 

INIarshall, Drain M. 

Worthey, Fred 
Cooks : 

Gilbert, Commodore 

Doepke, John A. 
Mechanic: 

Storman, William W. 
Bugler, 

IMayhan, Hurley R. 
1 st Class Privates : 

Braun, Mellville 

Cope, Oliver C. 

Denny, George T. 

Eaton, Russel 

Franklin, John G. 

Hildebrand, Norman 

Holler, Henry G. 

Johnson, Hugh 

Johnson, Robert 

King, William 

Lenceski, Frank 

Link, Fred B. 



Marcole, Joseph D. 
Meglitsch, Anthony 
Oldendorph, Walter L 
Oswitz, Samuel 
Power, Walter M. 
Reese, Elton 
Rockwell, Murray R. 
Schnettler, Frank J. 
Smith, WilTfam W. 
Tapy, Henry G. 
Wachter, Edwin J. 
Washausen, August F. 
Werner, Cornell A. 
Williamson, William 
Worthey, Harold 
Zeisler, John J. 
Privates : 

Abraham, Henry J. 
Adler, George J. 
Andreoletti, Paul L. 
Baxter, Arbie H. 
Benoist, Arthur A. 
Better, Allen E. 
Brady, James J. 
Brady, John W. 
Bredenbeck, Elmer F. 
Briscoe, Louis D. 



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Brown, Daniel 
Buchanan, David H. 
Buschmann, James P. 
Clark, Edward 1,. 
Cobb, Samuel W. 
Cole, Harvey C. 
Condon, John P. 
Cummiskey, Eugene 

E. 
Cunningham, Fred W. 
Dick, William M. 
Draper, Jack 
Easton, William 
Edgmon, James S. 
Fitzgerald, John J. 
Fitzwater, Daniel C. 
Fox, Lowell A. 
Geeson, Arthur B. 
Gleason, Alve 
Graham, John W. 
Green, John K. 
Haas, Harry 
Hill, Roy H. 
Hilsraan, William E. 
Hoos, Robert G. 



Hughes, Thomas t,. 
Hunicke, Walter A. 
King, John J. 
Jones, George P. 
Kellher, John J. 
King, Archie R. 
King, Hal A. 
Kohl, Edward G. 
EaBreque, John B. 
Lake, George L. 
Lee, Pert 
Leiber, Allen G. 
Lowry, Joseph D. 
McShane, Raymond L. 
Mangelsdorf, John F. 
Marck, Claude H. 
Martin, Harry A. 
Mehl, Walter F, 
Morgan, Whitnell F. 
Newton, John A. 
Nolan, Joesph T. 
Oakes, Adolph E. 
O'Leary, Chester L. 
O'Leary, Eugene A. 



Oswitz, Ruben J. 
Overturf, John D. 
J^assek, Eaward J. 
Phelan, Raymond P. 
Power, Anthony L. 
Richardson, Thomas 

S. 
Schuchert, Ernest F. 
Schwarz, Herbert A. 
Spalding, Joseph L. 
Spurgeon, Benjamin 

O. 
Stanley, Grant 
Stevenson, Edward W. 
Taylor, Vernon L- 
Tighe, Lee W. 
Vincent." Theron S. 
Vogel, Christ H. 
White, Thomas W. 
Whitehead, Arnold S. 
Wilhelm, James h- 
Williams, Harry M. 
Woodard, Ira L. 
Youngblood, Joseph 



Captain, 

John S. Pearson 
1st Lieutenant, 

John S. Schweitzer 
2d Lieutenant, 

Dan C. Smith 
1st Sergeant, 

Black, George M. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Spengeman, Charles 
Sergeants : 

Boehl, Paul L. 

Boland, James P. 

Fleming, Howard E. 

Chase, Frederick T. 

French, Douglas 

Shuka, Gilbert 

White, Albert F. 

Mills, Richard B. 

Auxier, Samuel T. 
Corporals: 

Bothwell, Max 

Minney, Peter G. 

Bennett, Clarence H. 

Field, Eugene B. 

Goericke, William R. 

Meier, Edward 

Manville, Melvin H. 

Zuckerman, Otto 

Mahoney, Audrey W. 

Conway, William G. 

Kissane, Louis 

Heim, Stanler R. 

May, Floyd M. 



COMPANY L 

St. Louis 

Cooks: 

Walker, Henry E. 

Mager, Orson C. 

Florence, John J. 
Buglers: 

Lavenberg, William 
E. 

LeBee, John J. 
Mechanic: 

Withington, Eugene 
S. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bartlett, Lloyd 

Betts, Vernon L. 

Hagaman, Terry G. 

Hempen, Alfred J. 

Jacob, Charles R. 

Kaesewurm, John K. 

Keith, Deane 

McGrath, John J. 

Madden, Chas. J. 

Megel, Archie 

Pleus, Oliver H. 

Scott, John H. 

Smith, Louie, H. 

Stanton, Henry T. 

Stephens, Joseph H. 

Tockstein, George M. 

Wardan, Charles M. 

Webster, Lawrence 
Privates: 

Akiki, Joseph A. 

Atchison, Tohn G. 

Bailey, James F. 



Bainum, Ralph C. 
Ball, Claud D. 
Bibb, John 

Britton, Frederick L- 
Brockwell, Byran 
Brokan, Guy H. 
Brooks, Roy O. 
Burgess, Lee M. 
Byington, Charles F. 
Caldwell, Carl A. 
Caldwell, George D. 
Cantwell, Frank H. 
Catlin, Arthur 
Cave, Walter G. 
Clark, Dorris F. 
Cook, John 
Con, George T. 
Cremer, Charles G. 
Crowder, John W. 
Devine, John 
Donner, Harry E. 
Duyer, Daniel B. 
Ebert, Albert J. 
Emery, Joseph 
Evans, Arthur F. D. 
Fagin, Isadore 
T'lanagan, William B. 
Fleming, Frank R. 
Flowers, George 
Flynn, John A. 
Frost, George M. 
Frowitter, Olliver E. 

Gibson. Clarence 



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Gibson, John B. 
Godwin, Raymond A. 
Goldberg, Sam. 
Grate, Robert A. 
Gross, William O. 
Hall, Arthur W. 
Hanson, Fred A. 
Harmon, William 
Harris, William A. 
Hayes, Thomas F. 
Heege, Lawrence, A. 
Helloran, Harley H. 
Holmes, Jesse 
Hornick, John H. 
Hoyle, Henry M. 
Hubenthal, Charles 
Jones, Marshall A. 
Joyce, John D. 
Katherman, Benjamin 

H. 
Kelly, James F. 
Key, Austin 



Knight, Charles 
Koppling, Richard 
Kuna, t rank 
Kogeler, Emil J. 
Layden, William A. 
Leavitt, George A, 
Lepper, Louis 
Lewis, Wallace B. 
Loftus, James F. 
McLaughlin, Claud I. 
Matton, Roy B. 
Mills, Max A. 
Moore, Fred W. 
Moriarty, Tim 
Moss, John A. 
Moyle, James W. 
Murphy,. Patrick 
Neudecker, Harvey L. 
O'Byrne, Harold 
Pallardy^ Robert L. 
Patterson, Leslie E). 
Phipps, Jesse L. 
Rainey, Forrest 



Reith, John J. 
Russell, Ernest C. 
Schroeder, Dillard A. 
Schwellemsattl, Her- 
man J. 
Shoults, Elmer D. 
Slighton, Evert N. 
Smith, Claude 
Smith, Clarence T. 
Speer, Edward N. 
Stinson, Alec 
Sullivan, James J. 
Tate, Carroll M. 
Trey, Edward D. 
Upson, William C. 
VanDover, William 
Van Sands, Walter 
Werner, Louis W. 
Weis, Emil E. 
Winkle, William A. 
Zakibo, Nakly F. 
Zoleman^ Harry H. 



COMPANY M 
St. Louis 



Captain, 

Harry W. Thompson, 
1st Lieutenant, 

William H. Norwine 
2d Lieutenant, 

Rudolph H. Hartmann 
1st Sergeant, 

Ayers, Carl V. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Wellenkotter, Herman 

Mess Sergeant, 

Roblee, Robert A. 
Sergeants : 

Koziatek, Theodore S. 

Perowitz, John 

Bondurant, Benjamin 
B. 

Lem, Louis 

Robinson, George R. 

Shields, William C, Jr. 
Corporals: 

Skinner, George 

Woods, Walter 

Helwig, Gunther 

Bone, William N. 

Snyder, Harry P. 

Lindenberg, Nicholas 

Unruh, Charles 

Keane, Lucius, W. 

Jeffries, Arthur D. 

Allen, Cecil H. 

Wright, Jesse E. 
Cooks: 

Hayward, Edward L. 



Farrell, James E. 

Lampard, William J. 
Bugler, 

Barnes, Gilbert H. Jr. 
Mechanic, 

Lake, Roland E. 
1st Class Privates: 

Baird, Ivan H. 

Emig, Elmer H. 

Johnson, Donald S. 

Johnson^ Guy E. 

Lake, Lawrence C. 

Litherbury, Claude L- 

McNaughton, Barney 
W. 

Patrick, Curry F. 

Philibert, Bertram J. 

Pugh, Ira T. 

Sanguinet, Ferdinand 
H. 

Shaw, Robert 

Stemmons, George II, 

Vaughn, Mason 

Webb, Otis 

Wightman, Joseph S. 

Wilkerson, Marmin J. 

Withinion, Thomas 
W. 
Privates : 

Adams, Oliver B. 

Allyn, Harvey 

Andrews, Frank W. 

Aumann, Louis W. 

Baker, Robert B. 

Barry, Drew H. 



Bauch, William F. 
Bekebrede, George H. 
Blade, Edward L. 
Blandin, Walter S. 
Blumstengel, Ludwig 

A. 
Bowers, Oscar H. 
Brown, Louis 
Brown, Richard T. 
Bryant, Roy 
Butler, Arthur J. 
Cagle, George G. 
Chester, John C. 
Childers, Robert M. 
Claypool, Edwin O. 
Cooper, William W. 
Cremer, Clarence 
Daffern, James A. 
Davis, Lee, A. 
Deming, William H. 

Jr. 
Disher, Walter 
Dixon, Carl A. 
Donnohue, Clarence 

E. 
Donovan, John F. 
Drum, William E. 
Emig, Charlie 
Emig, Fred 
Ernst, William J. 
Eschbach, Charles 
Farrell, Frank 
Favez, Lois E. 
Ferris, John W. 
Fitzgerald, Frank J. 



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Fleming^ Patrick F. 
Francis, Harold W. 
Frasher, Carl T. 
Gohmann, John 
Gorder, William M. 
Govar, Claude 
Griffith, George 
Gunn, Ewing J. 
Guntherj Herbert A. 
Hargraves, Edward E- 
Hass, Horace 
Hatch, George M. 
Hefele, Leo P. 
Hicks, Allan F. 
Jones, Harvey 
Jones, James M. 
Kelley, John J. 
Koch, Clarence G. 
Koziatek, Joseph J. 
Krenning, Fred H. 
Krouper, Thomas C. 
Kurz, Daniel H. 
Lake, Rolla A. 



Leporin, Arthur 
McHugh, Charles J. 
McKay, David J. Jr. 
Mahon, Robert R. 
Mayer, Herbert O. 
Mincemeyer, Benja- 
min 
Misemer^ Dolpha E. 
Montgomery, George 

Moore, Edwin J. 
Munro, Alexander L. 
Ocks, Emil D. 
Owens, Cyrus C. 
Poore, Dewey 
Reitz, Philip T. 
Rodgers, John L. Jr. 
Ross, Edgar 
Ross, Virgil 
Rumbuhl, Flavius A. 
Rush, Gerald 
Rush, James E. 
Rushing, William E. 



Sante, Purnell A. 
Sabadell, August 
Schneider, Henry W. 
Seism, Don 
Sentner, Harry 
Shipman, John F. 
Smith, Chester A, 
Smith, Ervin T. 
Smith, George S. 
Smith, Leonard 
Snyder, Martin 
Southard, Frank 
St. James, Robert J. 
Stanton, James A. 
Storr, Hugo P. 
Sullivan, John 
Tomasso^ Francesco 
Walker, Curtis 
West, Thomas A. 
Wetzel, George L. 
Witte, George H. 
Woodring, Rufus H. 
Wormack, Stanley J. 



SANITAKY DETACHMENT 

St. Louis 



Major, 

Emil H, Burgher 
1st Lieutenant, 

Carl H. Wachenfeld 
1st Lieutenant, 

Oliver C. Wenger 
1st Lieutenant, 

William C. Broadhead 
1st Lieutenant, 

Roscoe T. Lindsay 
1st Class Sergeant, 

Cozad, Fred P. 
Sergeants: 

Knoll, Charles W. 

Price, Roy E. 



1st Class Privates: 

Ereund, Seymour 

Park, Claude J. 

Roth, August 
Privates: 

Beard, John M. 

Brown, Paul 

Cloud, George 

Cooper, Archie D. 

Craighead, Norwood 

Cutler, Melvin 

Dickey, Frank E. 

Farley, William K. 

Gallagher, Robert M. 

Glenn, William L. 



Grellner^ Beorge 
Guthrie, Samuel E. 
Henle, Samuel 
Hickman, Clinton J. 
Hilles, Aubrey R. 
Hubert, George 
Lutz, Walter H. 
McNamee, Owen 
Meyer, Waldrew E. 
Messe, Harry 
Nelson, Alan E. 
Phelan, George 
Prichard, Lester A. 
Sintzel, Joseph R. 
Smith, Oilman W. S. 
Walsh, David F. 



THIRD REGIMENT INFANTRY 



Colonel, 

Philip J. Kealy, 

Commanding 
Major, 

Claude H. Congdon 



FIELD AND STAFF 
Kansas City 

Major, 

John F. Constable 
Major, 

Francis D. Ross 
1st Lieut, & Bn. Adt. 

John P. Griebel 



1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 

Willard L. Coe 
1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 

Jerry F. Duggan 
Battalion Segt. Major, 

Charles T. Everhari 



HEADQUAETEES COMPANY 
Kansas City 



Captain, 
James F. Imes 



Reg. Sergeant Major, 
Page, Russell 



Battalion Sgt. Major, 
Arnold, John W. 



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Battalion Sgt. Major 

Everhart, Charles T. 
Battalion Sgt. Major, 

Sayre, Roswell B. 
1st Sergeant, 

Lett, Frank K. 
Color Sergeant, 

Danneberg, Herman 
A. 
Color Sergeant, 

Otey, Basil R. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Stewart, James O. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Wilson, Eugene P. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Lamb, Charles R. 
Sergeant, 

Quinton, Telesphore 
P. 
Cooks: 

Chandler, Karl M. 

Delahunt, John L. 
Horseshoer, 

Shine, Michael A. 



Band Leader, 

Kendrick, Benjamin H. 
Assistant Band Leader, 

Joste, Fred S. 
Sergeant Bugler, 

Kammann, Bodo A. 
Band Sergeant, 

Dedrick, Daniel D. 
Band Corporals: 

Allison, Bruce 

Dean, Marquess 

Hartge, Paul 

Sharp, Claude S. 
1st Class Musicians: 

Crockett, John 

McLain, Horace G. 
2d Class Musicians: 

Bowne, Charles G. 

Noland, James J. 

Prati, Henry 
3rd Class Musicians: 

Bower, Ralph M. 

Burnell, Frank J. 

Davis, Fred Lauren 

Frost, Sam H. 

Hall, Charley 

Johnston, Herbert 

Keilbackj Charles J. 



Knake, Herman H. 

Lackey, Boyce 

Lenge, Roscoe K. 

Metz, Carl S. 

Parrish, Lawrence L. 

Vickseil, Robert 

Wheeler', Harry W. 

Wheeler, Ted R. 
1st Class Privates: 

Jacobs, Hawley 

Peery, Farl H. 

Whitney^ Luther P. 
Privates: 

Brewster, Willie E. 

Ferguson, Joseph B. 

Halin, George W. 

Hursh, Guy C. 

Kennedy, Harry F. 

Lucas, William Ever- 
ett 

Merriweather, George 
E. 

Phillips, Roy A. 

Shine, Daniel J. 

Tippy, Coy M. 

Weir, Raymond C. 

Weiser, Mark F. 

Williamson, Frank A. 



Captain, 

Frank G. Ward 
2d Lieutenant, 

William F. Ward 
1st Sergeant 

Briody, George W. 
Rgt. Supply Sergeants : 

Damico, Edward O. 

Osiier, William J. 

Zaiss, Joseph 
Stable Sergeant, 

Hughey, Edward Leo 
Mess Sergeant, 

McKeehan, John M. 
Corporal: 

Kuhns, Ivan C. 
Cook, 

Procell, William 



SUPPLY COMPANY 

Kansas City 

Horseshoer, 

Hamm, George C. 
Saddlers: 

Kennedy, John W. 

Lonsdale, William E. 

Norton, Leo R. 
Wagoners: 

Bennett, EHeria Lee 

Brogdon^ Nathan T. 

Buchan, James Emory 

Byrd, Robert 

Connelly, Patrick 

Daniels, Charlie A. 

Galvin, William M. 

Haxton, Ellis 

Henderson, George H. 

Johnson^ James A. 

Johnson,. Marion F. 



Jones, William B. 
Ligon, Millard 
Lindsay, Roy 
Lowe, Oscar 
Malone, Thomas 
Oldham, Earon T. 
Olson, Benjamin 
Parsons, Charles A. 
Payne, Frank 
Pierson, Cliarles G. 
Pollard, Claude A. 
Russ, Fred K. 
Saunders, Arthur 
Sibley, Waldo R. 
Speaker, Fred 
Stearns, Harry L. 
Wickizer, Frank 
Wilcox, Jack P. 
Wright, Leonard A. 



MACHINE GUN COMPANY 

Kansas City 



Captain, 

Warren L. Osgood 
1st Lieutenant, 

William C. Gordon 



2d Lieutenants: 
Ralph E. Truman, 
Richard W. Hocker 

1st Sergeant, 

McGuire, Arnold R. 



Stable Sergeant, 
Gill, Harold J. 

Mess Sergeant, 
Akers, John D. 



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Sergeants: 

Dougherty, Stephen 
E. 

Fredman, Royal J. 

Harvey, Frederick K. 

Hatfield, Robert A. 

Jackson, Harvey 

Talbott, Arthui W. 
Corporals: 

Greene, Francis W. 

Keefer, Clarence A. 

Lehman, Elmer J. 

Matkin, John F. 

Meagher, Vincent M. 

Moses, Frank E. 

Phillips, Sidney B. 

Zents, Lee J. 

Burnell, Thomas C. 
Mechanics : 

Mills, Walter 

Nicholson, Ernest 
Cooks: 

Halstead, Carl B. 

Lower, James W. 
Buglers: 

Beaumont, Howard B. 

Blablock, Charles W. 



1st Class Privates: 

Bruening, Winfield H. 

Carfrae, Robert W. 

Carroll, Phillip M. 

Dana, Herbert C. 

David, Cecil R. 

Planner, Edgar H. 

Newberry, George W. 
Jr. 

Prollock, John G. 

Rankin, Hugh B. 

Reeve, Ralph J. 

Swoboda, Lee A. 

Zeigler, Charles L. 
Privates: 

Barnes, Romie M. 

Becker, Chris M. 

Caputo, James 

Cooley, McCabe 

Cunningham, George 
W. 

Donnelly, Ray V. 

Dunham, Cecil R. 

Evans, John M. 

Frost, Harry L. 

Fulton, John C. 

Gardner, Richard O. 



Henry, Edgar H. 
Hickman, John L. 
Hinzman, Harry 
Hoard, Edgar F. 
Imes, George D. 
Kendrick, James M. 
Laurant, Joseph 
Lower, Earl C. 
Lyon, Lewis B. 
Major, Duncan A. 
Martgan Tad L. 
Martin, Lee W, 
Meek, Albert L. 
Meyer, Abraham 
Miller, Jesse T. 
Neves, Albert L. 
Owen, Robert S. 
Peery, Thomas R. 
PoUucca, Guiseppi 
Runkle, Olin W. 
Shimmer, John 
Stevenson, Rowland 

H. 
Sumpter, Perry E. 
White, Hugh 
Wolfe, Charles A. 
Yager, Ira M. 



Captain, 

John W. Armour 
1st Lieutenant, 

Lloyd V. Wise 
2nd Lieutenant, 

William E. Scott 
1st Sergeant, 

Ray, Charles P. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Cunningham, Clyde C. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Kane, Lewis W. 
Sergeants: 

Richardson, Roy R. 

DeWitt, Ralph Emer- 
son 

Olney, Howard R. 

Hunt, John C. 

Weaver, Frank F. 

Bliss, Frank J. 
Corporals: 

McKernan, John G. 

Morse, Ira L. 

Sharpe, Emory J. 

Carey, Dady M. Jr. 

STiawIian, Spencer S. 

Cousins, Sydney A. 

Clark, Jesse C. 

McDonald, William T. 

McDonald, Richard P. 

Baker, Louis C. 



COMPANY A 

Kansas City 

Cooks: 

Aumann, George 

Egbert, Asa N. 

Hufstedler, Roy D. 
Bugler, 

Livingston, Gurnest 
W. 
Mechanics, 

Yager, Frank Ralph 

O'Rourke, Walter R. 
1st Class Privates: 

Cook, Edgar B. 

Fredrichs, Edward A. 

Gunderson, Glenn 

Hardy, Harold 

Hunter, H. Ward 

Lerche, John M. 

Pippitt, Elmer S. 

Rush, John T. 

Sawyer, Dudley, W. 

Sprague, Elmer A. 
Privates: 

Arnold, Harry P. 

Baker, Hugh E. 

Ballard, W. Calvin 

Barnett, Joseph 

Billington, Fred W. 

Blackburn, David E. 

Blackburn, Marshall 
L. 

Brekey, John E. 



Brown, John 
Buchanan, Everet G. 
Buhr, Edward P. 
Campbell, James W. 
Carroll, George W. 
Chambers, Dan J. 
Clemings, Claude F. 
Clemmons, Ralph L. 
Cox, Willie G. 
Denhardt, Lucian O. 
Dimmitt, Cecil E. 
Dover, Peter 
Drake, Harvey H. 
Drury, Archie J. 
Evans, Frank J. 
Evans, Harry 
Farmer, Arlo J. 
Fowler, Edwin B. 
Freed, Joe I. 
Garfield, William 
Gaynor, Michael 
Green, Thomas 
Grist, James 
Hall, Lester C. 
Hatton, Ralph 
Jenkins, Clarence A. 
Johns, Benjamin P. 
Keyton, Clarence E. 
Leahy, Don J. 
Long, Maxwell F. 
Marksbury, Joseph H. 



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Milam, Milton R. 
Moxom, Theo. R. 
Myers, Sherman H. 
Neale, Virgil C. 
Niles, LeRoy 
Oliver, Henry K. 
Patterson, John T. 
Peyton, Marion L,. 
Pike, Fred J. 
Pope, Alexander 
Pressley, Lawrence K. 
Quirk, Joe 
Rice, James N. 
Risebig, Philip R. 
Roardink, Hendrius 

C. 
Roberts, J. Milton 



Rogers, Ralph J. 
Ross, Charles Cleve- 
land 
Saunders, Krnest L. 
Saylor, Charles A. 
Schnick, Martin 
Schroeder, Frank W. 
Sheward, Harry G. 
Shirk, Robert B. 
Smith, Albert 
Smith, James Arthur 
Snorgrass, James F. 
Snyder, Harvy L. 
Speers, James W. 
Spielman, Clemens L- 
Sprague, Arthur L. 



Stark, Charles A. 
Steele, Earl 
Stewart, Chauncey L- 
Stokes, George A. 
Stuart, Harry J, 
Taylor, Donald G. 
Tetrick, John L. 
Tilton, Forest F. 
Troub, Frnest 
Turk, Edward L- 
Vicker, Ralph W. 
Way, Heber O. 
Webb, Lester J. 
Weiford, Clarence E. 
Wells, Earl H. 
White, Roy R. 
Winchester, Floyd 



Captain, 

Carl F. Scheibner 
1st Lieutenant, 

Warren T. Davis 
2nd Lieutenant, 

William F. Short 
1st Sergeant, 

Barnert, Merl Joseph 
Mess Sergeant, 

Davis, Juneious Clem- 
ens. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Miller, Carl A. 
Sergeants: 

Wilhite, James Frank 

Haley, Roy P. 

Potter, George 

Campbell, Arthur L. 

White, Joseph C. 

Huber, Charles H. 

McRoberts, Emmett F. 
Corporals: 

Lachner, William G. 

Lohse, Edgar C. 

Mock, Samuel A. 

White, Roger E. 

Yountz, William H. 

Bottom, Rollo T. 

Pfeiffer, David H. 

Windsor, Richard N. 

Stillwell, Jesse O. 

Simm, Fred 

Logan, John Parker 
Jr. 

Simmons, Webster J. 

Stephens, Robert H. 
Cooks: 

Langhans, George 
Cauthon, John 
Mechanic, 

Jenkins, Cecil 



COMPANY B 

BOONVILLE 

1st Class Privates: 

Coulter, Monte Chns- 
to 

Haley, James Junius 

Holmes, Harry R. 

Kohn, William P. 

Mayiield, Andrew L- 

Peeples, Philip 

Renfrew, Robert C. 

Shea, John Jr. 

Spaete, Ernest F. 

Von Oertzen, Robert 

Willard, Edward Trus- 
ton 
Privates: 

Bagby, Stephen Y. 

Beard, George T. Jr 

Becker, Daniel R. 

Berry, Wayne R. 

Biltz, RoUa L- 

Bridges, Edwin 

Brown, Clarence W. 

Cash, Frank W. 

Cornett, Charles 

Cramer, Wyatt 

Crum, Oscar 

Cullumber, William R. 

Davis, Harry H. 

Davis, Jesse H. 

Dichion, Percie J. 

Doehne, Alonzo S. 

Donohew, James M. 

Dorflinger, John M. 

Edwards, John C. 

Fenical, Jewel 

Fowler, Ira O. 

Gentry, Ben C. 

Gibbons, Calvert V. 

Groves, Edward F. 

Groves, Irvin L. 

Hayes, George E. 

Hayes, Rutherford B. 



Hichcox, Tom A. 
Huelskamp, Henry J. 
Hurt, Ewing R. 
Johnston, Eugene E. 
Kane, John D. 
Kennedy, James M. 
Kimlin, Fred A. 
Kleasner, Eugene F. 
Klein, George 
Klein, Tony 
Kreeger, George H. 
Kreeger, James L. 
Leininger, George W. 
McMellon, John H. 
Malott, Sylvanus 
Mock, Carl W. 
Moore, Kemper S. 
Muncy, Claud Lee 
Murphy, Riley W. 
Neighbors, Ray E. 
Oswald, Walker 
Partee, Raymond R. 
Phillips, Charley E. 
Poertner, Otto E. 
Robinson, Phillip M. 
Robinson, Robert E. 
Ross, James Alfred 
Russell, Earl W. 
Schell, Albert R. 
Scotten, William 
Sears, Earnest 
Simmons, Charles 

Christopher 
Simmons, Henry 
Simmons, Rodney E. 
Simmons, Roy Elmer 
Simpson, Earnest N. 
Slein, Louis 
Spry, Walker Allen 
Stephenson, Hew 
Stiner, Curtis 
Stockwell, Silas R, 



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Thatcher, Stanley M. 
Thomas, Neffert R. 
Thomas, Rothwell H. 
Thomas, William R. 
Thorne, Lyman 
Tuckley, Ralph A, 



Captain, 

Hunter C. Crist 
1st Lieutenant, 

Thomas J. Wilson, 
2d Lieutenant, 

Joseph Lieberman, 
1st Sergeant, 

Brown, Frank A. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Widener, Louis E. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Johnson, Harry Henry 
Sergeants: 

Dedo, Charles G. 

Crockett, William A. 

Frederick, Charles 

Winslow, Joseph 

Sicking, I^dward J. 
Corporals: 

Greathouse, Ivory 

Douthat, Richard H. 

Oldham, Charles W. 

Pipes, Eugene F. 

Allen, Ernest 

Roberts, Andrew H. 

Hinkefont, Julius C. 

McDill, John R. 

Gertscher, John 

Matson, Joe F. 
Cooks: 

Peiker, Walter L. 

Parrish, Joseph S. 
Buglers: 

Taulbert, Bar! R. 

Phillips, Arlie 
Mechanic, 

McCaulla, Willis B. 
1st Class Privates: 

Brant, Gilp 

Carlson, Edgar G. 

Chilson, Clifford C. 

Corporan, Harold 

Cover, William P. 



Vaughan, Harley P. 
Warren, Henry W. 
Wells, Dewey F. 
Weyland, Lon H. 
White, James 



COMPANY C 

Kansas City 

Divine, James R. 
Duncan, Gilbert R. 
Eckland, George A. 
Graham, Albert H. 
Hampton, Grant 
Harris, Jack 
Hoxsey, Russell T. 
Inger, Earl L. 
Johns, Clarence L. 
Norberg, Gerald 
Post, Mark Henry 
Powers, L. Ray 
Pypes, Delos E. 
Reece, Orville J. 
Rehkugler, John G. 
Robinson, Willie G. 
Rogers, Charles G. 
Singleton, Russell 
Taylor, Eugene W. 
Wood, Vic A. 
Woolery, Elmer L. 
Privates: 

Abbott, Walter 
Adams, John B. 
Alberts, Frank 
Ash. William W. 
Ashworth, William 
Bechtel, Andrew 
Carey, James 
Carr, Louis T. 
Coffey, Chester 
Coleman. T"hn E. 
Coolev, Wi'lliam A. 
Cowiak, Mike 
Craig, Henrv J. 
Cullivan. Thomas J. 
Dillon, D3vid A. 
Dodson. Cris E. 
Edes. Merold L. 
Egner, Charles T. 
Finig, Walter T. 
Ennerson. Tosenh 
Evp.ns. Frank A. 
■Pptter". Theodore R. 
Gay, George W. 



Whitlow, Henry 
Whitlow, John 
Williams, Hampton E. 
Wood, Grady T. 
Wyrick, Chester B. 
Zoeller, Frank S. 



Gentry, Ed. 
Green, John W. 
Griffitts, Wilbur E. 
Harness, Earl 
Hendrix, Clyde C. 
Howell, George W. 
Jackson, Paul 
James, Jesse F. 
Johnson, Carl 
Jones, Everett N. 
Lang, Albert William 
Lowe, Benjamin F. 
McCuUough, Robert 

V. 
Mann, Howard H. 
Martin, Edward 
Mitchell, John K. 
Monroe, Harold 
Mortorano, Frank 
Mount, Eugene V. 
Neff, Roland S. 
Noaic, Oscar 
O'Connor, Richard J. 
Queen, Ralph C. 
Ramey, Frank D. 
Ramsey, Leo C. 
Rice, brien D. 
Roe, John H, 
Rutherford, Charles 

C. 
Sellers, Louis, M. 
Siegmund, Roy E. 
Smith, Albert O. 
Snapp, Wayne F. 
Sorrels, Homer W. 
Steele, Beverly M. 
Stone, Edward P. 
Stranger, Arthur 
Strauss, Karl E. J. 
Summers, Thomas M. 
Tillery, Dale 
Turney, Charley W. 
Webb, James L- 
Weinzeri, Franz 
Young, Arleigh T. 



Captain, 

Thomas D. Ross 
1st Lieutenant, 

Roy E. Stafford 



COMPANY D 

Kansas City 

2nd Lieutenant, 

Benton F. Munday, 
1st Sergeant, 

Ross, Francis R. 



Supply Sergeant, 
Kennedy, Roy A. 

Mess Sergeant, 

Amen, Nicholas C. 



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Sergeants: 

Ward, Ernest 
Lawson, Andrew 
Smith, Irving R. 
Hinrichs, John F. 
Stout, Jay E. 
Corporals: 

Reed, Robert H. 
Kiper, Richard G. 

York, Samuel T. 

Huff, George L. 

Elliott, Don 

Bacchus, Leslie J. 

Rogers, James A. 

Warren, Kelley 

Wetherton, James H. 

Richards, William A. 

Cooks: _ 

Hite, Robert D. 
Bogue, Charles A. 
Dixon, Elmer. 
Mechanic, 

Shelton, Frank H. 
Buglers: ^, , ^ 
Talcott, Floyd C. 
Redford, Joseph N. 
1st Class Privates: 
Dabney, Frank W. 
Dale, Low Z. 
DeCamp, James W. 
Deskin, William A. 
Ellfeldt, Ralph J. 
Grant, Joseph W. ^ 
Greenberg, Benjamin 
Gregg, Walter S. Jr. 
Koontz, Carl J. 
Langton, Leo D. 
Mason, Jeptha H. 
Monahan, George E. 
Murphy, Jo^n 
Reynolds, Fred J. 
Robinson, Patrick H. 
Trevor, Frank L. 
Privates: 

Adrian. Charles R- 
Allen, Howard E. 



Allen Ollie C. 
Arnold. George E. 
Ashmore, Artie L. 
Aubley, Cliffors F. 
Ballard, Leroy G. 
Boulware, Sidney F. 
Boyle, George W. 
Brooks, Chester 

Claude 
Brown, Edwin 
Bruffey, Raymond 
Brummett, Elvis 
Butler, Joseph C. 
Carpenter, Oliver F. 
Cason, Orval L. 
Colville, James M. 
Colville, Tecumseh t. 
Conlon, Luke J. 
Curtin, James F. 
Curto, Armando 
Daddea, Pasquale 
Desebeo, Mike 
Dimon, Jesse 
Dimon, Lewis 
Downing, Richard b. 
Esaw, Peter D. 
Gartman, Robert 

Henry , , _ 

Gordon, Winfred D. 
Gormly, Charles K 
Gormly, WiUiam W. 
Grant. John H,. 
Haines, Roy C. 
Hall, Lonzie V. 
Harmon, Ernest f . 
Hiatt, Russell A. 
Holbert, Leonard M. 
Holterman, Anthony 

Howard, George C. 
Howk, Howard B. 
Huey, ■Frank L. 
Husted, Charles E. 
Hyatt, John B. 

Tames, Charles e. 

Tenkins, ' Herbert J. 

Johnson, Errol P. 



Kensinger, James 

Hartwell 
Kirk, Harry M. 
Kohler, Bion 
Lane, Richard T; 
Lyon, Paul 
McCleary, Roy Ay 
McGaugh, Maurice 
McHarness, David C, 
McKeon, Thomas A. 
McKinley, Noah F. 
McLain, Walter F. 
Madaon, John C. 
Martin, William E. 
Micklich, Anthony 
Miller, St&ve 
Moberly, William 
Moorman, Russell b. 
O'Connell, Dennis M. 
Oglevie, Jesse N. 
Paxton, Roy 
Payne, Hugh 
Peterson, Wilhelm 
Poindexter, John K. 
Poteet, Clifford 
Pruitt, Moses Sim- 
mons ,, , 
PummelU Theadford 

W. 
Reynolds, Fred J. 
Roy, Pierce M. 
Rudd, Harper O. 
Small ey, Horace 
Smith, Chester F. 
Smith, William F. 
Spero, Joa G. 
Steele, Harry B. 
Taylor, Hobert J. 
Todd, Horace E. 
Waite, Raymond 
War6, Noble O. 
Welborn, Jdhn G. 
Welch, Arthur . 

Wright, James Marion 
Wvobleski, Aleck 
Wyrick, Charles E- 



Captain, 

William A. Smith 
1st Lieutenant, 

J, Pierce Kane 
2nd Lieutenant, 

John H. Pleasants 
1st Sergeant, 

Nesselhof, William 
Supply Sergeant, 

Roberts, Phillip B. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Peters,on, Andrew U 



COMPANY E 

Kansas City 

Sergeants :_ 

Shropshire, John 
Henry 

Leniton, Errol D. 

Rugh, Elmer O. 

Fades, Floyd A. 

Crambert, William 

Coughlin, Harry 

Searles, Jack 
Corporals: 

McDonnell, Edward 
M. 



Swain, W^ilhelm W. 
Lozier, Adrian C. 
Brainard, Earl A. 
Stratton, Homer 
Curtis, Clark 
Cordill, William B. 
Dawson, Harold L. 
Borchert, Leo 
Forrester, James A. _ 
Pemberton, Tom Cutis 
Marchant, Clifford 



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Cooks: 

Moon, Willard W. 

Hatcher, Fred C. 
Mechanic, 

Buell, Ralph B. 
Bugler,, 

Miller, Edward S. 
1st Class Privates: 

Caulk, Ross R. 

Cordill, Amos F. 

Dahl, Harry 

Everett, Halley 1,. 

Fox, Mott Iv. 

German, Walter 

Glover, Edward E. 

Goodman, Morrisi 

Breves, Leo 

Hollis, James Arthur 

Kitchen, Ralph J. 

Kubicki, Felix C. 

Leaf, Murvel J. 

Lucie, Stva 

McGee, Lee L. 

Mayne, William J. 

O'Reily, Frank 

Potheles, George 

Tower, Ransom E. 
Privates : 

Allen, Thomas E. 

Anderson, James K. 

Applebv, Neuton 

Bell, James V. 

Bennett, Joseph 

Boulton, Ray 



Bresneham, James J. 
Brumbaugh, John 

William 
Bubhe, Steve 
Buchman, Ralph E. 
Carter, George W. 
Cisnerbs, Felix 
Cisneros, Louis 
Cordill, Russell M. 
Cundiff, Chester 
Curren, William 
Dailey, Charles O. 
Dailey, Elton M. 
Danford, Charley O. 
Davis, Jewell 
Davis, Robert W. 
Dean, Albert Rollins 
Rurel, Caron A. 
Fain, Tom 
Ferry, Harrison H. 
Fleming, Frank 
Foster, Robert 
Franklin, William H. 
Frizzell, Byron H. 
Goetting, PHilip O. 
Green, Charles M. 
Hendricks, Lee R. 
Hill, Oscar' E. 
Hunt, Philip 
Harris, Walter H. 
Husken, Carl Edward 
Ingles, Robert G. 
Linton, John 
Long, Harry C. 



McDarmon, Thomas 

G. 
McDonald, Howard 
McDonald, Roy L. 
Mariner, Walter J. 
Matney, George W. 
Milner, Leo R. 
Moore, James A. 
Mount, Harry E. 
Mounts, Roy E. 
Mouritson, Anton 
Owens, James 
Peterman, William P. 
Pryor, Charles Shelby 
Ray, Harlan J. 
Richardson, Arthur 

Harold 
Ruvolos, Joseph 
Shankester, Claude G. 
Skinner, Ethell W. 
Slein, Abe 
Smith, Harry J, 
Smoot, Elmer E. 
Steere, Glen H. 
Stoward, Owen B, 
Travis, Charles L,. 
Trigg, James L. 
Troube, Herbert 
Turner, Ruby L. 
Vineyard, Lee McK 
Walthan, Frank V, 
Williams, Roger 
Wilmot, Robert P. 
Young, John. 



Captain 

Jefferson M. Dunlap 
1st Lieutenant, 

Rhodes F. Arnold 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Frank H. Grigg 
1st Sergeant, 

Lancy, Thomas E. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Koch, Fred A. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Chamblin, Robert L. 
Sergeants: 

Asbury, Luther L., Jr. 

Kiugsley, Ralph W. 

Graen, Eldon P. 

Henry, James N. 

Hagen, Fendell A. 
Corporals: 

Vitt, Albert M. 

Calfee, John Clark 

Gallery, Ralph E. 

Walsh, John R. 

Baughman, Arthur B. 

Hallett, Charles M. 



COMPANY F 

Kansas City 

Cons, Clarence F. 

Stinson, Julian T. 

Gray, Robert H. 

Snyder, Buel C. 

Belt, Alfred E. 
Cooks: 

Manning, William H. 

Zimmerman, Wesley 

Ham, William W. 
Buglers: 

Bennett, Chester A. 

Bell, Guy 
Mechanic, 

McGerr, Joseph W. 
1st Class Privates: 

Anderson, Chamblin 

Beckman, Ralph P. 

Brantner, Claude L. 

Breckenbridge, Dewey 

Brown, Andy A. 

Chamblin, Lee F. 

Charlton, Rowland H. 

Deggett, William H. 

DeWitt, Arnand A. 

Dye, Raymond E. 



Gray, Herbert, C. 
Hughes, Phillip H. 
Lembeck, William H. 
Needles, Charles H. 
Niess, Herman 
O'Connor, William D. 
Peniston, John E. 
Richter, Roy A. 
Rickets, Carl V. 
Sadewhite, John C. 
Sandy, John W. 
Sheley, Edward L. 
Stocker, Robert C. 
Taggart, Forest S. 
Torp M. Dewey 
VanGilder, Clarence 
Van Winkle, Floyd 
Wallace, Robert A. 
Williams, Claude E. 
Privates: 
Alak, Ed. 
Ball, Sneed 
Barrett, William F. 
Black, Herbert 
Blackwell, Charles T. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Booker, William H. 
Boyer, Otis L. 
Bright, Joseph J. 
Briscoe, Delo M. 
Calvin, Paul C. 
Claypole, William 
Coll. Harry 
Collins, Emil Z, 
Crist, George N. 
Darrah, Lee 
Diemer, Frank 
Dingey, George 
Dodd, Carl W. 
Etzler, Richard J. 
Fitzpatrick, Clifford E. 
Fletcher, Edward S. 
Gibson, Albert G. 



Gleason, Leo F, 
Gurney, Frank S. 
Haley, William J. 
Hannon, Noel B. 
Hanyon, William A. 
Hart, Sam B. 
Hornaday, Thomas R. 
Lane, Jack A. 
Lindsey, Ben B. 
Linenberger, Anton P. 
McClure, Burl 
McMahon, Joseph B. 
Martin, John P. 
Marts, Lindon, E. 
Michal, John 
Miller, Clyde E. 
Mort, Leo M. 
Needles, Clifford C. 



Pickett, Griffith H. 
Rhodes, Virgil 
Rittenhouse, Frank A. 
Rupp, Leonard W. 
Russell, Harry E. 
Scully, James H. 
Shool, Paul W. 
Trigg, Steven 
Vandiver, Joe V. 
Vineyard, John A. L. 
Warren, James G. 
Williamson, Allen E. 
Wilson, Arthur L. 
Wilson, John W. 
Wood, Jesse F. 
Wright, Harry D. 
Yadon, Joseph M. 



Captain, 

Henry E. Lewis 
1st Lieutenant, 

Fred C. Wilhelm 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Harry A. Pilcher 
1st Sergeant, 

Wingate, John R. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Keffner, Edward W. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Nix, William T. 
Sergeants: 

Mineah, Harold J. 

Hutchinson, William 
S. 

Burke, Edmund M. 

Graves, Harold F. 

Holcomb, John A. 

Stewart, Cleo H. 

Munger, Earl L. 

Leeper, Charles L. 
Corporals: 

Tuckfield, Ralph G. 

Needles, Ralph E. 

Rogers, Edward L. 

Brockman, Gilbert G. 

Byard, Ernest L. 

Ely, Sims 

Pelton, Fred N. 

Quigley, Robert C. 

Best, John L. 

Buck, Clarence R. 

Jackson, William S. 

Smith, Penn. 

Johnson, Charles L. 

Beckett, Paul B. 

Hogan, Sidney M. 



COMPANY G 

Kansas City 

Cooks: 

Hogan, Lineas G. 

Gabbert, Aubrey 

Beacher, Alfrea 
Artificer, 

Baker, William C. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bandel, Morris A. 

Bierman, Joseph W. 

Binz, Fred H. 

Digman, Emmet J. 

Dollar, David, B. 

Enberg, Raymond O. 

Forkner, Artie 

Friess, Charles R. 

Gault, John M. 

Hancock, Paul F. 

Huerter, Francis E. 

Huerter, Victor J. 

Jones, Rodney P. 

Lemon, Roy 

Lewis, William M, 

McPherson, James H. 

Pierson, Lorenzo B. 

Perry, Earl 

Pritchard, Earl J. 

Ruby, Frank 

Sanders, Burr 

Sloan, Elmer M. 

Smith, Thomas B. 

Walling, Russell 

Waters, Carl 
Privates: 

Beasley, Everett C. 

Benham, George S. 

Boatman, Clarence D. 

Brvant, Ray H. 

Carroll, Hubert W. 

Cashman, John J. 

Clement, Danus 

Clucky, Charles 



Coberly, Leonard 
Connor, Blaine 
Coons, Daniels E. 
Cooper, Victor 
Copeland, Ross 
Daniels, Charlie 
Dobrela, George J. 
Dyer, Pat. 
Eads, Dow L. 
Elliott, Harry E. 
Evans, Elmer E. 
Flack, Roy E. 
Gilbert, Wilbert 
Glenn, Don 
Gray, Ralph 
Hall, Lester C. 
Hatch, George C. 
Heisev, Trvin A. 
Hirschfield, Harry C. 
Hogan, Willis W. 
Hukill, Earl 
Kenney, Charles A. 
Larrabee, Vernice 
Leutkemeyer, John F. 
Lewis, Merton E. 
Lewis, Milton O. 
Low, Earl R, 
McCarty, John H. E. 
McNabb, Leon 
Marshall, Edw^ard 
Meyer, Charles M. 
Meilor, George I. 
Michael, James 
Miller, Jacob J. 
Morehead, Charles A. 
Murphy, Thomas 
Myers, Worthv C. 
Osterhaut, William B. 
Otott, Edward 
Patterson. Ted R. 
Payne, Frank 



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Pirn, Myron D. 
Porstman, Walter E. 
Preston, George W. 
Radz, Walter J. 
Richardson, Samuel 
Roberts, Emmet S. 
Roberts, Herbert 



Rodman, Richard F. 
Rogell, Herman 
Samuels, Clarence 
Sewell, Don E. 
Shearer, Paul C. 
Sowers, Floyd E. 



Steele, Harry H. 
Trent, Tony 
Walker, Lincoln 
Walls, William 
Wees, Herbert R. 
Wich, Christ 
Wilkins, Charles M. 



Captain, 

William R. Hardin 
1st Lieutenant, 

John R. Smiley 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Frank P. Farrar 
1st Sergeant, 

Farrar, Robert M. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Stone, Dudley S. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Taylor, George B. 
Sergeants: 

Mace, John H. 

Beistle, Tiffin O, 

Swinney, John J. 

Thomason, John 

Baker, Robert H. 
Corporals: 

Watts, James L. 

Baker, William N. 

Richardson, George 

Owens, James E. 

Martin, Thomas J. 

Eidson, Robert V. 

Hoover, Earl F. 

Yingling, Oda M. 

Unger, Bnjamin 

Freeman, Tanner H. 

Summers, Rothie 

DeYoung, John 
Cooks: 

Smith, Fred G. 

Warren, Ollie 
Mechanic, 

Kennedy, Frank R. 
Bugler, 

Rowland, Lestr 
1st Class Privates: 

Berry, Orion 

Bratcher, Lee Roy 

Deatherage, Virgil P. 

Ray, Russell D. 

Roberson, John G. 

Schiller, Joseph 

Snow, Isaac R. 

Tatham, Arthur R. 
Privates: 

Arnold, Walter P. 

Ashby, Floyd B. 



COMPANY H 

Liberty 

Ball, Harry 
Barclay, John 
Beck, Cecil 
Beery, Wilkerson C. 
Benson, Vivian K. 
Bowers, Joseph M. 
Bradley, Roy M. 
Breachinridge, Eddie 
Broderick, Waldo O. 
Campbell, Eugene O. 
Campbell, George A. 
Carey, Ira N. 
Columbia, Harmon 
Corum, Alonzo 
Cummins, Raymond 

W. 
Dagley, Scott 
Davis, Chester 
Davis, Everett 
Davis, Fred J. 
Davis, William J. 
Deen, Cleo C. 
Dennis, Ruby 
Douglas, James 
Elliott, Graham 
Evans, Cecil D, 
Fairchild, Milon 
Fields, Rufus A. 
Fisher, Alfred E. 
Flaherty, Joseph F. 
Foley, Luther B. 
Foley, Roy P. 
Foley, Samuel R. 
Gawlak, Joe 
Giles, Ben R. 
Gouris, Efthemeous 
Harris, Lester C. 
Harris, Marion L- 
Heavenhill, Clint G, 
Heinzman, Merle 
Hendrix, Arthur W. 
Hessenflow, Jesse 
Hess, Ernest 
Hill, Harry 
Johnson, Albert J, 
Jones, Fred H. 
Kehew, George H. 
Kelly, John P. 
Kennedy, Joseph L. 
Kirtley, Willard 



Kollar, Joe S. 
Larkin, Charles J. 
Lemanski, True J. 
McClintoch, Hurley J. 
McMillen, Luther V. 
Maloney, Robert E. 
Markham, Clarence I. 
Mayers, John D. 
Moore, Harry L. 
Mores, George 
Morris, Preston P. 
Meyer, Charles C. 
Nelson, Charles 
Nelson, Herman P. 
Nickolich, Fred 
Ov^erman, Benjamin 
Owens, Clarence 
Owens, James Lee 
Palmer, John R. 
Paradise, William 
Parker, Lee 
Patrick, William L. 
Perkins, Leo 
Portwood, Tom 
Potter, Clayton E. 
Potter, Ray L. 
Purcell, Gregory E. 
Reel, Charles 
Rigley, Floyd H. 
Rigley, Harry E. 
Roberts, Roy E. 
Sires, Clyde 
Sloan, James E. 
Smith, LeRoy 
Smith, Roy 
Smith, Russell D. 
Still, William 
Stone, George B. 
Talbott, William N. 
Taylor, Daniel W. 
Thomas, Brack A. 
Tritt, John 
Walker, Guian L. 
Waring, George 
Weaver, Ralph E. 
Williams, Albert L. 
Wills, Hilary J. 
Willyard, Rufus L. 
Windsor, John L. 
Yates, Lewis D. 
Zagar, Frank 



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Captain, 

Walter H. Williams 
1st Lieutenant, 

Rolla B. Holt 
2d Lieutenant, 

John V. Stark 
1st Sergeant, 

Hanes, Samuel M. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Cooperider, Noel L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Rogers, Guy G. 
Sergeants: 

Boehler, Adolph 

Haberstroh, Ray 

Hight, Floyd 

Hynes, George I. 

Lupton, Clifford L. 

Tilley, Orval C. 
Corporals: 

Brown, Clyde M. 

Dry, Clarence C. 

Downing, Elmer C. 

Hammen, Arthur W. 

Hill, Cecil 

Kiso, Hugh J. 

Loveless, Merrill 

McFall, Harry E. 

Scott, Claude J. 

Stein, Claude N. 

William, Frank W. 
Cooks: 

Brown, Henry 

Truesdale, Ross R. 
Buglers: 

Kaiser, William 

Keys, Burson T. 
Artificer, 

Leavitt, Jacob W. 
1st Class Privates: 

Clark, Virgil 

Dennis, Otto 



COMPANY I 

Kansas City 

Flora, Norman 
Heineman, Alfred D. 
Jarrell, Sandford 
Jensen, John J. 
Southern, Edward 
Young, Lamar 
Privates: 

Abbott, Floyd H. 
Anes, William R. 
Bernhard, Fred G. 
Bradley, George 
Brothers, Edgar 
Brummitt, Carl 
Conroy, John 
Coe, Bennie H. 
Dancy, Paul 
Davis, Paris 
Don Carlos, Robert 
Farley, Clarence E. 
Ferguson, Joe E. 
Gail, Augustus O. 
Garthwait, Roy 
Gibbons, Austin 
Goodridge, David 
Graves, Russell D, 
Graves, Wesley 
Greer, Noah 
Gregg, Gaylord F. 
Haist, George 
Harrington, Phillip 
Hays, Guy 
Henderson, John F. 
Henkel, Anthony 
Herron, Arthur O. D. 
Hickerson, Temple R. 
Holl, Steven E. 
Jacks, John W. 
Jester, Albert 
Johnston, Harvey T. 
Tones, Frederick A. 
Kelly, John F. 
Kennedy, Miller R. 
Kreditch, Michael 



Laird, Edward 
Langan, Harry W. 
Lanternier, Joseph 
Lisenbee, Clifford 
McCarthy, Louis E. 
McClure, Moody 
McGinniss, Joseph 
McKee, Samuel 
Martin, Alva C. 
Maddox, Earl J. 
Micles, Mike 
Moriarty, Will T. 
Morse, Harry C. 
Page, Frank 
Parish, Lee R. 
Pence, Robert E. 
Perkinson, James C. 
Perry, Albert C. 
Petty, Owen J. 
Pittenger, George W. 
Pursel, Dewey 
Ragan, Arthur F. 
Raischel, Bias 
Roberts, Boyd H. 
Robinson, William 
Rogocinski, Stefan 
Ross, Charles W. 
Ruiz, Florencio 
Rush, Frank 
Sanoff, Sam 
Saymore, Robert 
Sharkey, Jack H. 
Snodgrass, Earl M. 
Spano, Gus 
Spender, James E. 
Swanson, Walter 
Van Brunt, Ode F, 
Van Kirk, Albert 
West; Frank B. 
Wilson, Lin 
Winston, William W. 
Wolley, Runie 
Zagar, Anthony 



Captain, 

Walter R. Barnes 
1st Lieutenant, 

Samuel W. Hender- 
son, Jr, 
2d Lieutenant, 

Orville S. Bowman, 
Jr. 
1st Sergeant, 

Raynor, Rolf 
Mess Sergeant, 

Penrod, Cecil R. 



COMPANY K 

Kansas City 

Sergeants: 

Hill, Clinton V. 

Bateman, William D. 

Saunders, Fred 

Rogers, Harry B. 

Breckenridge, John C. 

Ortell, Earl 

Rassmusen, Anton 
Corporals: 

Seller, William 

Cuberly, Fred R. 

Kane, Robert E. 

McKenzie, Albert 



Dover, Robert 

Shipley, Dean 

Bodwell, Paul 

Eubanks, Hale B. 

Railsbacic, Bryan 

Beers, Forrest H. 

Swain, William J. 
Cooks : 

Jones, George W. 

Robinson, Albert E. 
Buglers: 

Bateman, Walter 

Mercer, Wesley 



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Mechanic, 

Barnes, Homer J. 
1st Class Privates: 

Boyce, Herbert 

Butterfield, Charles E. 

Cornell, Frank 

Evans, Floyd A. 

Fitzpatrick, Lee 

Fowler, Samuel C. 

Hammontree, Virgil I. 

Hunter, Alec 

Little, Louis L. 

Miller, Roy B. 

Penrod, Harry 

Stapleton, Frank H. 

Starling, Jay J. 

Tanner, Ralph 

Tompson, Herbert W. 

Totzauer, William 

Turley, Jacob 

Turley, Robert M. 

Wolfe, Joe 
Privates: 

Armstrong, George R. 

Arnett, Harold J, 

Ashbaugh, Arthur A. 

Baker, Joseph 

Baker, William R. 

Battles, Robert D. 

Begey, Ben F. 

Bishop, George B. 



Bokis, Charley 
Brents, Henry D. 
Burns, Neil 
Buslovitz, Adam 
Byrne, George T. 
Coberly, John A. 
Cook, Edward 
Cox, J. Lloyd 
Craven, Herman 
Cronhardt, Frank 
Davis, Judson 
Day, Edward 
Fitzpatrick, Raymond 

R. 
Funck, Paul 
Gaddy, Monte 
Gaupp, Gus O. 
Golledge, Frank T. 
Hadley, Walter D. 
Hampton, Leon V. 
Hill, Virgil H. 
Homburg, William 
Hughes, Charles L. 
Huppert, Elwin 
Johnson, Harrison 
Kinney, John 
Lindlow, Charles O. 
Lucas, Wesley C. 
Lunbeck, Herbert F. 
Lusk, Thomas 



Lynch, Thomas 
McBee, Lawrence G. 
McConnell, Edward j, 
McNatt, Virgil E- 
Magula, Frank 
Marshall, Gilbert E. 
Mathews, William J. 
Mode, William J. 
Neely, Arthur D. 
Owens, William M. 
Parker, Harold W. 
Perkins, Harold W. 
Pierce, Yancy 
Pocost, Harry B. 
Reeves, Ernest C. 
Rode, Albert 
Sciabarrasi, Mariano 
Sexton, Levi S. 
Sheehan, Daniel 
Sheehan, Phillip 
Smith, Harley 
Starbeck, Hugh A. 
Stockwell, Elmer 
Strole, Walfred 
Taylor, Lester G. 
Tucker, James 
Tum, Sam 
Ulshoefer, Anthony 
Vanetten, James E. 
Vickrey, Sidney L. 
Young, Frank 



Captain, 

Murray Davis 
1st Lieutenant, 

Russell C. Throck- 
morton 
2d Lieutenant, 

Stephan O, Slaughter 
1st Sergeant, 

Waltman, Chester A. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Lake, Arthur W. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Richards, Floyd E. 
Sergeants, 

Smith, James G. 

Blocher, Joseph S. 

Dreeben, Harry 

Elbs, George J. 

Smith, Norman R. 
Corporals: 

Adkins, Melville H. 

Robinson, Albert E. 

Allee, Moses 

Brockman, Carl 

Collins, Milo R. 

Waymire, Jacob H, 

Degraflfenreid, Joe 

Stark, Bert 



COMPANY L 

Kansas City 

Roche, Joseph V. 

Newman, Charles 

Gossard, Hampton D. 

Hoover, Henry 
Mechanic, 

Summers, Walter D. 
Cooks: 

Lane, Burnam 

Posh, Phillip 
Buglers: 

Mitchell, John F. 

Rothband, Wolff 

Coakley, William 

Coffin, Charles W. 

Frisbie, Leland 
1st Class Privates: 

Heliums, Lawrence 

Helmick, Andrew J. 

Higby, Clarence P. 

Kelly, Thomas B. 

LaVelle, Grover J. 

Leonard, John P. 

Lewis, Aubrey S. 

Lieskie, Joseph 

Marshall, Harold 

Mehl, Fred C. 

Nevins. William J. 

Slick, Bennie R. 



Sparks, John W. 
Stadler, Charles E. 
Steiner, Walter S. 
Stone, Wilmer 
Thayer, Lester M. 
Youngberg, Chester 
Privates: 

Ahern, Daniel 
Bender, William 
Bledsoe, Russell 
Brothers, Edward 
Carr, Noflet B. 
Cook, Teddie R. 
Corbin, Dean 
Coughlan, John M. 
Cowgill, Walter W. 
Dumas, Hugh L. 
Fox. Charles E. 
French, Michael 
Gregory, William S. 
Grenrood, Joseph F. 
Hancock, Leonides 
Hamby, Elmer 
Harmon, Martin 
Hassler, James 
Hay, Thomas G. 
Herman, Edward 
Hervey, Edward 



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Huff, Alonzo C. 
Hulbert, Ralph D. 
Jacobson, Ruben 
Johnson, Rufus P. 
Jones, Earl 
Jordan, Charles L. 
Lee, William R. 
Lloyd, Samuel G. 
Lossone, Frank 
McCracken, Dent 
Maderick, George 
Marsh, Homer 
Maule, Harold 



Meily, Guy Ora 
Menardi, George 
Meyer, Henry 
Moore, Day D. 
Mott, Marvin 
Nail, Roly R. 
Newby, Milton 
Oliver, Kamp I. 
Paulsen, Marimus 
Pennell, William 
Phaling, Edward S. 
Powell, Dewey M. 



Rayner, William 
Rees, William A. 
Rice, Sidney 
Rogers, William A. 
Sherman, Harold H, 
Slick, Harry 
Thatcher, Wheeler B. 
Trigg, Beldon H. 
Van Briggle, Walter 
VanHecke, Arthur 
Wiseman, Erie L. 
Woods, Karl M. 
Zuber, George Andrew 



Captain, 

George T. Pfeiffer 
2nd Lieutenant, 

William J. Baxter 
1st Sergeant, 

Arnold, William H. 
Supply Sergeant 

Culberson, Stacy 
Mess Sergeant, 

Winfrey, Ray B. 
Sergeants: 

Erwin, William E. 

Woodbury, Frank B. 

Odom, Walter E. 

Ritter, George F. 

King, Lee 

Streeper, Thomas 
Corporals: 

Donohoe, James W. 

Samide, Rudolph J. 

Scott, Edward J. 

Moon, Charles L. 

Ormsby, Richard C. 

Shaw, Ray H. 

Bird, Arthur C. 

Paskrich, John J. 

Liebst, Kasper M. 
Cooks: 

Gresham, Floyd A. 

Granzella, Viver 
Musicians: 

Layman, Ray 

Heinold, Proctor L. 
Mechanic, 

Staebler, Anton B. 
1st Class Privates: 

Arnold, William L. 
Bryan, Harry M. 
Chamberlain, Harry 
Chandler, Robert B. 



COMPANY M 

Kansas Cety 

Collins, Otis F. 
Frith, Roy N. 
Fuqua, Edgar 
Harris, Robert L. 
Hays, John W. 
Hickenlooper, Thomas 

W. 
Hopkins, Paul F. 
Kratville, Milo 
Overstreet, Walter L. 
Painter, Orval C. 
Patchin, Levey Gould 
Roberts, John R. 
Schriver, Joseph M. 
Shaw, Wilson B. 
Slemmons, William G. 
Tate, Clarence E. 
Troxel, Joe 
Waddle, Alva P. 
Privates: 

Arbuthnot, George W. 
Bailey, Floyd F. 
Barnes, Walter 
Blevins, Ernest V. 
Bockhahn, Alfred 
Bryant, Richard S. 
Buford, Ted L. 
Buford, William 
Calvert, James W. 
Cleeton, Linzie V. 
Clevy, Clarence T. 
Cole, William A. 
Collum, Ralph B. 
Daugherty, Lewis B. 
Deis, James F. 
Dennis, Waldo C. 
Ellis, Charles H. 
Fitzmaurice, Robert E 
Foulks,- Walter O. 
Fuqua, Samuel O. 
Gaffney, William P. 
Gildea, Francis 
Green, John 
Hatcher, Charlie L. 



Henkel William J. 
Hosford, Guy T. 
Hosterman, Roland K 
Johnston, John H, 
Keith, Benjamin 
Kindig, Frank R, 
Klouski, Stanly 
Knoch, Joseph 
Knoch, Luther B. 
Korpnick, John L- 
Layman, Roy 
Lee, Charles E. 

Lewis, Ira Everett 
McMullin, Dent M. 
Mathews, Clarence J.- 
Miller, Ray J. 
Mossman, Eugene L- 
O'Hare, Howard P. 
Owen, James M. 

Owens, Dewey 

Phillips, Vera 

Puttroff, Archie L. 

Ray, Chauncey W. 

Rice, Coke S. 

Roseberry, Carl F. 

Rosenfield, Milton B. 

Sarver, Jacob D. 

Shepherd, Virgil V. 

Smith, George W. 

Severn, Claude L. 

Stefanski, Franz J. 

Stone, Allen J. 

Sullivan, William J. 

Swain, John O. 

Taylor, Alonza C. 

Thatcher, Garrett M. 

Thompson, James E. 

Turner, James 

Watson, George D. 

White, Floyd 

White, Frank T. 

Winston, Hugo A. 

Woods, Louis A. 



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SANITARY DETACHMENT 

Kansas City 



Major, 

Ernest W. Slusher 
Captain, 

Archie W. Johnson 
1st lyieutenant. 

Glen H. Broyles 
1st Lieutenant, 

Edwin C. White, Jr. 
1st Class Sergeant, 

Johnson, Sydney J. 
Sergeants: 

Dillon, Joseph 



Haus, Frank 
Liebst, Charles A. Jr. 
1st Class Privates: 
Burchett, William F, 
George, Hollis A. 
Howey, Paul H. 
Kirchodd, Charles 
Krenzer, William W. 
Lewis, Homer M. 
McDonald, Theodore 
Meuller, Ralph F. 
Reynolds, Harold J. 
Smith, Norman R. 



Snyder, Melville 
Warner, Claude M. 
Williams, Ernest W. 
Wilson, Harry L. 
Privates: 

Carr, Charles L. 
Carroll, Jack 
Darby, Wells 
Davis, Harry S. 
Jeans, Chester D. 
Lane, Clark 
McGaugh, Homer 
O'Meara, Tom J. 
Patton, Wade K. 



FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY 

FIELD AND STAFF 



Colonel, 

Leroy K. Robbins, 

Commanding 
Lieutenant Colonel 

Edmund J. McMahon 
Major, 

August R. Sauerwein, 



St. Louis 

Major, 

Fred C. Husman 

Major, 

James L. Barngrove 
1st Lievit. & Bn. Adjt. 

Frank B. Avery 



1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 

Gerald C. Barnes 
1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 

Walter A. Hill 
1st Lieut. & Chaplain, 

Harold L. Reader 



HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

St. Louis 



Captain & Adjt., 

Algernon S. Cale 
Rgt. Sgt. Major, 

Braum, Louis W. 
Bn. Sgt. Major, 

Harrington, Gerald D. 
Bn. Sgt. Major, 

Kaysing, Harry C. 
Bn. Sgt. Major, 

Hutchinson, Paul 
1st Sergeant, 

Watson, Percy L. 
Color Sergeants: 

Barnett, Walter F- 

Krone, Clarence F. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Kenefick, James G. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Robertson, Roscoe C. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Cohen, Herbert 
Sergeant, 

Hunt, Wilson P., Jr. 
Horseshoer, 

Finazzo, Salvatori 



Cooks: 

Blowquist, Erick G. 

Harskovitz, Peter 
1st Class Privates: 

Chapman, James M. 

Orbach, August J. 

Stansbury, Louis W. 

Ward, Thomas H. 
Privates: 

Brady, Raymond H. 

Clayton, Alvah W. 

Davis, Charles G. 

Dolen, Fletcher T. 

Gentles, Howard 

Glader, Charles H. 

Johnson, Cliflford H. 

Kenefick, William H. 

Madden, Arthur R. 

Magnam, Thomas W. 
B. 

Simpson, Raymond F. 

Trowbridge, Voorhees 
Asst. Band Leader, 

Strother, Samuel H. 
Sergeant Bugler, 

Schleicher, Oscar 
Band Sergeants: 



Nichols, Lee C. 

Frank, Samuel 
Band Corporals: 

Allen, George M. 

Bailey, Fred E. 

Neukomm, John M. 

Schreier, Lawrence O. 
1st Class Musicians: 

Bernacchi, John H. 

Roettger, William A. 
2d Class Musicians: 

Huber, Arnold B. 

O'Donoghue, John 
3d Class Musicians: 

Bealmer, Lester 

Beinke, Franz R. 

Blest, Ernest J. 

Dapron, Albert C. 

Flaskamp, Fred A. 

Jannopoulo, Acnilles E. 

Morrison, Howard B. 

Nicolosi, Sam 

Shue, Willard E. 

Snowden, John G. 

Villers, Jean 

Weast, Courtney P. 

Whitson, Marvin F. 



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Captain, 

William E. McGaughey 
2d Lieutenant, 

Arthur E. Johnson 
Rgt. Sup. Sgt. 

Robert D. Turner 
Wagoners: 

Ank, George T. 

Bank, Sol. 

Barteau, Henry E). 

Blick, William H. 

Boyer, Ben 

Breck, Edward C. 

Bressler, Frederick R. 

Bressler, William M. 

Clark. Frank W. 



SUPPLY COMPANY 

St. Louis 

Collins, Richard D. 
Craft, Harold F. 
Daniel, Arthur M. 
DcMoulin, George 
Downing, Edward L. 
Forsyth, Grant G. 
Frees, Ferris C. 
Frost, Richard G. 
Harper, Floyd 
Hart, Charles 
Henseik, Alfred T. 
Holmose, William 
Kaffenberger, Edward 

G. 
LaZear, William J. 
Lutteke, Christ 



Marsh, George H. 
Marsh, Walter H. 
Moll, Louis H., Jr. 
Needham, Albert P. 
Noble, Walter 
Ogle, Marion E. 
Pollard, Joseph S. 
Pollard, Thomas L. 
Rogers, Arthur V. 
Shaw, Edward R. 
Shaw, John W. 
Skidmore, Arthur L. 
Sullivan, James M. 
Toettcher, George J. 
Ulrich, Raymond 
Williams, Purvin A. 



MACHINE GUN COMPANY 

St. Louis 



Captain, 

John R. Hundley 
1st Lieutenant, 

Harry Pierce 
2d Lieutenant, 

Arthur Poss, Jr. 
2d Lieutenant, 

Chauncey Schultz 
1st Sergeant, 

Winter, Albert J. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Kennedy, John F. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Hern, Edgar T. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Bear, Clarence 
Sergeants: 

Golterman, Herbert C. 

Knox, Robert H. 

Mathews, Jesse O. 

Reader, Harry A. 

Smith, Arthur J. 

Winter, Urban A. 
Corporals: 

Carney, James T. 

Gannon, Bernard J. 

Goehausen, Walter J. 

Hagee, Edward W. 

Hilton, Alexander, Jr. 

McKay, Clifford T. 

Moser, Leo, Jr. 

Young, Ray R. 



Horseshoer, 

Hickerson, Claude L- 
Mechanics: 

Chappell, Robert E. 

Vadner, Morton E. 

Winters, Clemence A. 
Cooks: 

Gross, Walter A. 

Mettenet, Paul 
Buglers: 

Bartley, Oliver J. 

McEnroe, James J. 
1st Class Privates: 

Blum, Edwin F. 

Frick, Nicholas C. 

Knickman, Herman C. 

McElhiney, _ Samuel J. 

Maurice, Richard S. 

Mettenet, George A. 

Rintoul, Morris C. 

Rothemeyer, Robert A 

Slawson, Charles G. 

Snyder, Harry M. 

Tebbetts, Alvah M, 

Zeller, Andrew A. 
Privates: 

Ashby, Cornelius A. 

Bambrick, Joseph A. 

Beaver, Carl M. 

Beavers, Fred W. 

Barman, Hymen 

Blakely, Walter M. 

Bourdet, Andre J. 



Dannacher, David S. 
English, Leo P. 
Enrigbt, Frank W. 
Fahein, John H. 
Farnik, John A. 
Gage, Leslie F. 
Garey, Harry D. 
Gemmer, Theodore, 

Jr. 
Hall, Scott H. 
Hall, Walter G. 
Harrington, Thomas 

F. 
Hill, Bernard L. 
Hunt, Robert C. 
Jefferies, Frank O. 
Johnson, James A. 
Johnson, Thomas A. 
Kelly, Alfred C. 
Lawler, Eugene F. 
Lomax, James C, 
Meglio, Leonardo 
Messmer, Frederick 
Napper, Elmer E. 
Neville, Barth 
Nowotny, Lawrence 

R. 
Papin, Laclede C. 
Sherburne, Leo F. 
Suycott, Adam H. 
Tischler, George J. 
Vahey, Joe H. 
Williams, Henry M. 



Captain, 

William P. Sanders 



COMPANY A 

St. Louis 

1st Lieutenant, 

Lawrence P. Wood- 
ward 



2d Lieutenant, 

Elzie V. McGinnis 



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1st Sergeant, 

Sheahan, John J. 
Mess Sergeant, 

McMahan, Hugh S., 
Jr. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Senn, Frank R. Jr. 
Sergeants: 

Woodward, Richard 
h. 

Tebeau, Albert J. 

Bonheim, Myron W. 

McGoogan, William j. 

Scheel, Ivouis 

McCune, Charles A. 
Corporals: 

McBride, Sherman L. 

Schless, Alphonse A. 

Combs, Denny 

Mooney, Ralph K. 

Moran, Joseph 

Hortiz, Raymond J, 

Kickham, John L. 

Krone, Emil F. 

Laffler, John J. 

Reid, Roger F. 
Cooks: 

Maloney, Edward R. 

Mann, Robert F. 
Mechanics: 

Belmont, Thomas J. 

Teckenbrock, Walter 
P. 
Buglers: 

Dixon, Walter D. 

McCluskey, Frank J. 
1st Class Privates: 

Avery, Henry B. 

Deitrich, Albert F. 

Distler, Theodore J. 



Fels, Daniel M. 
Goldberg, Isadora 
Hausman, Vincent G. 
Heidel, Carl 
Herzog, Fred J. 
Klinkamper, John 
Kruer, Roy A. 
lyinenweber, William 

S. 
Sweeney, Thomas L. 
Steinmeyer, Charles 
Ueltzen, Arthur H. F. 
Wolk, Raymond B. 
Privates: 

Aldrich, Myron W. 
Beans, Clarence F. 
Bertolotti, Stephen 
Bester, Philip 
Bigalke, Gustave 
Boedges, William J. 
Boggs, Walter H. 
Bonk,_ Alex P. 
Boveri, L,ouis 
Brownell, Richard S. 
Byrd, Medford W. 
Burne, Edward A. 
Cleary, Eward M. 
Coney, Palemon 
Coney, William G. 
Delarche, Rene 
Dowell, Virgil L,. 
Erkert, Elmer 
Fetten, Robert C. 
Forshee, Ivan E. 
Fracchia, John 
Franey, William J. 
Goldblume, Harry 
Gray, Clarence A. 
Gudermuth, Edward J. 
Hawkins, George R. 
Huff, Harrv G. 
Hutter, William 



Jarson, Maurice M. 
Johnson, Ulla F. 
Jones, Harry L,. 
Jones, Robert h. 
Krauska, Frank S. 
L,awson, Jess J. 
Littleton, Wilber E. 
Long, Robert H. 
McMahan, Earl D. 
Marlin, Fred E. 
Mersman, Charles E. 
Middleton, John W. 
Moon, James L,. 
Moon, William 
Murray, Charles S. 
Overy, Oscar J. 
Petrie, Herbert I, 
Prost, Robert E. 
Pruett, Charles 
Robertson, James W. 
Robertus, Gotlieb E. 
Rollman, Claire W. 
Ryan, Raymond C, 
Schaefer, August 
Shaw, Eldo C. 
Slominski, John V. 
Sowinski, Frank 
Specking, Edward 
Tebeau, Walter H. 
Toussley, Sid. 
Trotto, August F. 
Tuggle, Henry G. 
Ueltzen, William C. 

H. 
Venable, John W. 
Waite, Rowland , 
Wilcox, Loyal P. Jr. 
Wilson, Clarence F. 
Winters, Cash H. 
Worley, Edward R. 
Yeaman, Charles 
Yount, Verner J. 



Captain, 

Rodney J. Ludlow Jr. 
1st Lieutenant, 

Lloyd O. Brightfield 
2d Lieutenant, 

Archie D. Reiger 
1st Sergeant, 

Martin, Frederick B. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Brook, James R. 
Supply Sergeant 

Turner, Robert D. 
Sergeants: 

Schopp, Reynold S. 

Cherbonnier, Lawrence 
O. 

Hickerson, Sandford B. 



COMPANY B 
St. Louis 

Worrell, Richard O. 
Hopson, John W. 
Casey, Andrew F. 
Koch, Albert 
Corporals: 

Levy, Charles M. 
Vahlkamp, Gustave 
Gordon, James P. 
Smith, Lloyd A. 
Reid, Harry C. 
Smith, Elwyn G. 
Vaughan, Rufus E. 
Doxsee, Leigh A. 
Walker, Edward E. 
Johnson, Dee L. 
Moore, William S. 
Dunham, LeRoy D. 



Carney, Herbert S. 

Haill, Arthur H. 

Seimer, William A. 

Pitts, William S. 

Baker, Gilbert R. 
Cooks: 

Williams, Edward W. 

Ausbrooks, Noel H. 

Simpson, Lloyd J. 
Mechanic, 

Maryanovich, Paul A. 
Buglers: 

Schmid, Ferdinand A. 

Henley, Howard H. 
1st Class Privates: 

Anderson, Edmund R. 

Gorman, Robert J. 



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Kelso, E. Bryan 
Lynch, Robert L. 
Montgomery, William 

F. 
Pendleton, Clyde F. 
Pitt, Gladstone 
Prevallet, Val A. 
Smith, Elzie H. 
Theil, Frederick P. 
Privates: 

Armstrong, William 
Askrabich, Stojan 
Barnard, William D. 
Barrena, Casimiro 
Bell, Elmer J. 
Bertels, George J. 
Bornschein, Leonard 

L. 
Broombaugh, r^mmett 

Brown, Harry W. 
Carter, Elmer G. 
Carter, George F. 
Chase, Thomas B. 
Clark, Henry G. 
Collyer, R. Cecil 
Conway, William I. 
Dandridge, Leon 
Dean, William Fay 
Deaton, Harry B. 
Degonia, William 
Derringer, Richard G. 
Douglas, Robert S. 
Dowell, Maurice H. 
Fangmann, Arthur A. 
Foley, Francis T. 
Forrest, Fay F. 
Foster, Tames M. 
Galik, John 
Gerard, Eugene A. 



Gilpin, Floyd A. 
Gooldy, Wm. T. 
Gordon, Joseph E. 
Grace, William F. 
Gray, Curtis C. 
Griffin, Edward W. 
Hamby, Thomas G. 
Hamilton, John R. 
Hammond, Rankin 
Hannon, Thomas J. 
Hanson, John 
Haught, Herman C. 
Play, Darrell 
Hayes, Harvey J. 
Heitner, Charles W. 
Heiss, Fred 
Hereford, Thomas G. 
Herrick, John W. 
Huber, William J. 
Hurt, Patrick H. 
Jesse, Paul C. 
Johnson, Harry B. 
Johnson, Henry 
Johnson, William O. 
Kitson, William T. 
Koch, Edwin 
Koons, Joseph E. 
Leri, Savino V. 
McDaniel, Frank H. 
McGraw, Clarence R. 
Mager, Thomas J. 
Maguire, James J., Jr. 
Manilovitch, Boje 
Masson, Earl E. 
Masson, Edward L. 
May, Robert W. 
Morgan, Oliver Vance 
Moulton, Sidney 
Murphy, Jess C. 



Nuelle, Edward T. 
O'Connor, Maurice 
Onstott, Byron C. 
Ottorino, Debberti V. 
Paddock, Leroy E. 
Pesold, Charles 
Pohlman, Clarence H. 
Politte, Sam 
Popovick, John 
Pulliam, William M. 
Raff, Harold A. 
Reed, Jack 
Rice, Charles A. 
Ridgeway, Byran 
Ridgeway, Wray T. 
Roberts, Kirk M. 
Rutledge, Rube 
Scharnberger, Frank 

T. 
Schaub, Louis J. 
Schuedding, George 
Scoggins, Frederick 
Shoults, Odis E. 
Slater, William J. 
Smith, Jesse 
Smith, Lee R. 
Smith, Walter 
Steinle, Louis L. 
Stone, Bernard 
Stultz, James W. 
Sweeney, Mike L. 
Szezpaniak, Frank 
Taylor, Herbert S. 
Thompson, Donald C. 
Timmerman, George J. 
Tomlinson, Eugene 
Vance, Jesse S. 
White, Jay 
Wilson. Lemuel 
Wolz, Edward A. 



Captain, 

Walton S. FitzRoy 
1st Lieutenant, 

Andrew J. Moore 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Orville H. Cale 
1st Sergeant, 

White, Harry J. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Bock, John S. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Bluhm, August B. 
Sergeants: 

Curtis, Matthew B. 

Jennings, Duncan R. 
Corporals: 

Adams, Edwin J. 

Bowlin, William K. 

Donaldson, Charles H. 



COMPANY C 

St. Louis 

Howden, Howard L. 

O'Flynn, John S. 

Rohlfing, Philip L. 

Stevens, Clair F. 

Zager, William F., Jr. 
Mechanics: 

Hannan, Emanuel J. 

Petot, Thomas N. 
Cooks: 

Mitchell, John S. 

Stephenson, John A. 
Buglers: 

Trabue, Archie E. 

Witler, Walter G. 
1st Class Privates: 

Fornsbell, Robert L. 

Gieselman, Lester F. 

Gruner, Raymond 

Haley, Joseph J. 



Holloway, James W. 
Lowry, Russell L 
Meinhardt, William 

G. 
Renz, Fred J. 
Richart, Paul A. 
Salter, Chester R. 
Sweet, Andrew E. 
Privates: 

Bell, William 
Bernacchi, Robert J. 
Biddle, John H. 
Bobeen, Joseph F. 
Brockman, Guy 
Brockman, Harry A. 
Cluny, Emery E. 
Condon, Richard K. 
Cooksey, David F. 
Daley, Frank N. 



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Delcour, Ralph C. 
Diehl, Norman A. 
Disher Elmer 
Dreyfus, Edward N. 
Dunlap, Cecil H. 
Fagin, lyouis 
Fizer, Wm. F. 
Forbes, Maurice B. 
Gowan, Gordon D. 
Greear, Rogers A. 
Griffln, Peter M. 
Haefer, Wm. 
Heil, Mat. P. 
Heier, Michael P. 
Henley, Millard F. 
Heyer, George W. 
Horsfield, Thos. 
Johnson, Monroe H. 
Kilcovne, Tom 



Komocar, Martin 
Kruse, Julius 
Kubong, Max P. 
Kuehn, Arthur L. 
Lamure, Henry J. 
Laxton, Clarence P. 
Lee, James W. 
LeRoi, Elmer H. 
Eichtenberg, William 

H., Jr. 
Eindwedel, Frederick 

H. Jr. 
McDonough, Louis 
McGowan, Charles T. 
Machavec, Leo R. 
Mabery, Walter M. 
Mathes, William G. 
Miller, John M. 
Miner, Arthur L. 



Mitchell, Edward J. 
Nelson, Orlin S. 
Niles, Frederick W. 
Pickles, Ralph A. 
Pzybyl, Walter 
Reiter, Charles 
Schmidt, Elmer 
Seeburger, Louis P. 
Shepard, Charles E. 
Sobelman, Harry S. 
Stine, Glen W. 
Stumbagh, Ralph 
Timmons, James R. 
Tonga, George F. 
Vieth. Albert H. 
Watts, William O. 
Whitley, David Jr. 
Williams, Willie P. 
Young, Roscoe K. 



COMPANY D 

St. Louis 



Captain, 

Roderick, W. Rom- 
bauer 
1st Lieutenant, 

William J. Lonergan 
2d Lieutenant, 

Joseph F. McMahon 
Mess Sergeant, 

Carr, William J. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Deibel, Milton L. 
Sergeants: 

Dolan, Raphael R. 

Menges, Louis J. 

O'Connor, Stephen J. 

Weber, Frank D. 

Neuwirth, Alois G. 
Corporals: 

Abbott, Hughey T. 

Brennan, James F. 

DeVoy, Raymond J. 

Menges, Eugene V. 

Munsey, Walter T. 

Sartorius, Richard J. 

Schisler, William M. 

Letson, Thomas 

Scanlon, Matthew J. 
Cooks: 

Zwickl, Alois H. 

Re, Anthony V. 

Sullins, Harry J. 
Mechanic, 

Stanton, George K. 
Bugler, 

Davidson, Harry M. 
Privates : 

Bledsoe, James W. 

Bonzon, John 



Burke, John P. 
Carlton, Elmer M. 
Carron, Albert J. 
Charleville, Harry M. 
Collins, Sidney H. 
Craig, Everett C. 
Davis, John J. 
Deniston, Clyde N. 
Deniston, William H. 
Dickerson, John H. 
Dickie, Andrew W. 
Doere, Charles H. 
Engelbach, Clarence 
English, John P. 
Fields, Guy B. 
Gallaher, James E. 
Gerstkemper, Trevor 

H. 
Gildehaus, John B. 
Hahn, Walter H. 
Howard, Harry J. 
Jaenicke, Kent W. A. 
Janssen, George W. 
Keller, Herbert 
Kelley, William F. 
Kennealy, William R. 
Kenney, George M. 
Kerr, James J. 
Kilcoyne, John J. 
Koester, Frank B. 
Lane, Charles 
Loftus, William G 
McCoy, George J. 
McGough, Homer L. 
McHugh, George F. 
Mclntyre, James W. 
McKenna, Earle V. 
Martin, Frank I 
Middleton, Ward L. 



Motsinger, Chester 
Munsey, Arthur S. 
Muren, Irwin D. 
Neusella, Albert A. 
Noel, John B. 
Noonan, Michael S. 
O'Day, Joseph J. 
Olmsted, Charles D. 
Pentz, Virgil C. 
Radowski, John 
Rapp, Arthur P. 
Rhoades, Walter 
Roedeger, Frank P. 
Russell, Charles L. 
Schaffer, James A. 
Schlueter, Harold H. 
Seager, Henry J. 
Sheerinj Charles E. 
Sims, Troy E. 
Smart, William H. 
Smith, Albert 
Smith, Eugene H. 
Smith, Leon E. 
Sullivan, Thomas F. 
Templeman, Francis 

W. 
Templeman, John J. 
Thiesmann, Ben H. 
Theismann, Charles 
Tozer, Leroy J. 
Votaw, Forest 
Walker, August A. 
Walker, Raymond J. 
Ward, William J. 
Wells, Ozro L. 
Whelan. l^Tichnel 
Wio-ginSj, TyPster E. 
Williams, Victor 
Zoller, Herbert T, 



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Captain, 

George M. Faught 
1 St Lieutenant, 

Kenneth S. Walker 
2d Lieutenant, 

Charles M. Marshall 
1st Sergeant, 

Stone, Robert 
Supply Sergeant, 

Bryan, William S. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Barada, Maurice W. 
Sergeants: 

Lorenze, Fred C. 

Lindsey, Walter C. 

Compton, Letcher 

Kracht, "Alvin W. 
Corporals : 

Deacon, John C. 

Dohr, Eugene E. 

Eubanks, Will 

Gray, Edward L. 

Gupton, William O. 

Kirkland, Lewis D. 

Lehman^ George F. 

Long, Arthur 

McLean, John C. 

Richter, Joseph D. 

Reuther, Otto M. 

Schwacker, Arthur A. 

Thursby, Walter T. 

Walker, Roy E. 

Wulfert, Lorance E. 
Mechanic, 

Thilking, Arthur F. 
Buglers: * 

Anson, Tracy E. 

Ethridge, Stephen W. 
Cooks: 

Cleveland, William 
F. 

Hodges, James A. 
1st Class Privates: 

Alt, Frank W. 

Blum, Edward W. 

Cook, Columbus J. 

Cosgrove, Ed. R. 

Cosgrove, Roy John 

Czerwinski, Joseph B. 

Dilallo, Paul 



COMPANY E 
St. Louis 

Greene, William M. 
Hilton, Clinton H. 
Ikemeyer, Charles J. 
Kazban, John 
Kopp, Howard C. 
Lane, Harry J. 
Lane, Joseph E. 
Moore, Lee E. 
Nifong, Shirley 
Pfeifer, Oliver H. 
Powell, John W. 
Protte, Robert W. 
Ouinlivan, Thomas Af. 
Redman, Silas 
Sheridan, Paul J. 
Simmons, Elijah 
Trappe, Clarence O. 
W^alter, Wilham, Jr. 
Weiss, Louis W. 
Privates: 

Arnett, Robert H. 
Bainter, Clarence 
Boswell, John R. 
Bowser, Ross W. 
Brewington, Joseph C. 
Byers, Bert 
Combs, Oscar F. 
Daflfronj James 
Darrah, Fred 
Davis, Andrew A. 
Dietz, William 
Ferris, Joseph 
Fitzsimmons, Robert 

G. 
Forcum, Lincoln 
Foster, James E. 
Francis, William 
Garth, Thomas K. 
Gaus, Alfred W. 
Graham, George B. 
Hanes, Frank 
Heberer, Arthur E. 
Heger, John 
Hicks, Chauncey 
Hill, William C. 
Hugh, Ben 
Hurst, Wayne 
lahn, Grover P. 
Irwin, Fannon 
Johnson, William R. 
Jones, Lawrence 
Jordan, Miles 



Kelley, Charles M. 
Kelley, Stephen J. 
Kellogg, Donald L. 
King, Chester 
Kowalski, John 
Kruse, Edward C. 
Lacomb, Joseph F. 
Lander, Max 
Lanwet, Louis N. 
Loesch, Walter L. 
Loser, William C, Jr. 
Luley, Harvey L. 
McCall,. George T. 
McCarver, Charles 

F. 
McClurg, Leslie J. 
.-.iatkins, Ora D. 
Alayhill^ Ralph B. 
IMerriman, Harry R. 
Miller, Leland S. 
Mills, Thomas E. 
Montague, Charles A. 
Pavinski, Alex 
Politte, Madie 
Reed, Charles 
Reeves, Edward 
Reeves, Marvin 
Reichman, Benjamin 
Roesberg, Walter 
Rogge, Lawrence 
Sample, Floyd E. 
Sample, George W. 
Schleier, Hermann H. 
Schmidt, Elmer L. 
Scott, Gus 
Siemens, Joseph 
Slavick, Steve 
Smith, John W. 
Thomas, Willard B. 
Thomas, William F. 
Wampler, Harry D. 
Warren, Elijah 
Watkins, Bert L. 
Weber, Charles H. 
Williams, Emmett E. 
Wilt, Leo M. 
Wind, Wilham J. 
Wootan, Jerome 
Wray, Harvey 
Wright, Abraham 
Wysocki, Kasmir 
Young, Gus 



Captain, 

Eugene F. Lloyd 
1st Lieutenant, 

John E. Mitchell, Jr. 



COMPANY F 

St. Louis 

2d Lieutenant, 

William PL Bowman 
1st Sergeant, 

Jones, Paul, Jr. 



Supply Sergeant, 

Kiricpatrick, Richard 
Sergeants: 

Fuller, William R. 



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Hoefer, John Jr. 

Huber, George J. 

Pastelinck, Allan I*). 
Corporals : 

Bennett, Ralston 

Byrne, Charles L,. 

Hiffman, Arthur A. 

Marquard, William 

Phillips, Oscar M. 

Steinhoff, Homer 

Walsh, Patrick J. 

Wolfner, Walter 
Cooks: 

Beard, James D. 

Layne, Claude 

Roussin, Amos A. 
Mechanic : 

Alexander, William K. 
Privates : 

Adams, Arthur W. 

Althofif, Harry S. 

Anna, Edward 

Baird, George R. 

Battreal, Carrick J. 

Beckett, John H. 

Behymer, Vernon S. 

Bowles, Addison 

Browning, Mike 

Clark, McKee 

Click, Arthur F. Jr. 

Clifton, William D. 

Coffman, Leeman 

Connell, Richard J. 

Cunio, Roy E. 

Dalton, Albert K. 

Dempsey, Leo Walter 

Derickson, Roy 

Dickemian, Arthur A. 

Dobbins, Jesse L. 

Dreher, Walter F. 

Kstes, William L- 

Farrar, Edwin 

Fitzgerald, George K 

Fleming, Charles R. 



Flood, Wilhe A. 
Frankhn, William H. 
Frazier, Coleman P. 
Gallagher, William M. 
Goellner, Harry A. 
Gormley, Edward P. 
Gowan, Benjamin H 
Hacking, William V. 
Hancock, Jesse W. 
Harris, Henry 
Hart, Barney 
Hoard, Robert M. 
Hoffman, Richard 
Hood, Grover L. 
Hood, Lawrence 
Hosch, Alfred H. 
Huff, WilHam L. 
Hulsay, George M. 
Huskey, Frederick 
Huston, Robert W. 
Imholz, Harry W. 
Jackson, Herbert E. 
Juliet, John 
Knotts, Otis G. 
KoUwitz, August C, 
Kriegbaum, Frank 
Kurz, William L. 
LaRose, Peter F. 
Laughlin, Francis S. 
Lawson, Henry F. 
Ledbetter, E. Ray 
McCarthy, John J. 
McCreary, John C. 
McGee, Corbin A. 
McGeorge, Carl C. 
Mallery, Arthur N. 
Maness, William T. 
Meinhofer, Frank 
Michaelis, Albert 
Milford; Minor T. 
Moore, Roscoe D. 
Mounts, George M. 
Morris, John L. 
Murphy, James L. 
Newberry, Charles E. 
Ogle, Edgar L. 



Phillips, Roy Lee 
Pilger, Elbert L. 
Pope, Francis W. 
Portell, Fred D. 
Pounds, Allen E. 
Pounds, Nimrod A. 
Pratt, Jesse L. 
Ramer, George C. 
Raymond, Leslie R. 
Reddick, Norman J. 
Reden, Earl 
Reeder, Ollie C. 
Reeve, Ernest D. 
Richardson, Oscar 
Robinson, Lawrence 

L. 
Rosentengel, Harry 

F. 
Rosentengel, William 
Roth, William 
Roussin, Clyde O. 
Scaggs, William E. 
Schmidt, Charles 
Schmidt, Raymond A. 
Schumaker, Fred 
Silvey, Lawrence D. 
Smith, Arnold B. 
Sommers, William PI. 
Speidel, Frederick J. 
Splithoff, Frank 
Steinmann, Eugene B. 
SviUivan, Leo F. 
Tillman, Julius E. 
Ulrich, Clem H. 
Vaughan, Samuel R. 
Vie, Fred 
Wall, Howard 
Weber, Clarence R 
Weber, Val 
Westphal, George F. 
Williams, Clarence E. 
Wilson, Lloyd A. 
Wilson, William A. 
Withington, Joseph S 
Wunsch, Albert E. 
Young, Otha Lee 



1 st Lieutenant, 

Elmer S. Stradai 
2d Lieutenant, 

Edwin L. Jones 
1st Sergeant, 

Gray, Walter R. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Weil, Herman 
Mess Sergeant, 

Wies, Gustav 
Sergeants : 

Carter, Samuel S. 



COMPANY G 

St. Louis 

Dutton, Dudley S. 
Hoffman, Louis J. 
Fox, Eugene P. 
Corporals: 

Bierman, Ike 
Brannen, Earl W. 
Engel, Soloman H. 
Engelmeier, William 
Fleisher^ Albert H. 
Greenberg, Charles S. 
Johnson, Henry R. 
Piper, Henry E. 



Sauer, Joseph A. 

Preetorius, William 
C, Jr. 

Lungwitz, Martin 

Kelley, Eugene R. 
Mechanic : 

Rossen, William E. 
Cooks: 

Grenier, George J. 

Ussery, Grover 

Ortbals, John H. 



340 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



1st Class Privates: 

Brinkman, George A. 

Evans, Victor F. 

Hensler, Walter J. 

Lungwitz, Edward C. 

Marks, Garnett A. 

Owens, William 

Smith, William F. 
Privates: 

Brown, Carl L. 

Brown, George P. 

Brown, Harold L. 

Brown, William H, 

Bruns, Willliam H. 

Chandler, Kenneth 

Corrigan, Leon J. 

Davenport, Adrian C. 

Davidson, Clyde R. 

Davis, Loren 

Dayboll, Lawrence T. 

DeFerd,. Adrian A. 

Desbozeilles, James A. 

Dienj', Emil J., Jr 

Drakeford, James M. 

DuChesne, Harvey E 

Dwyer, Joseph J. 

Endejanj William 

ETans, Clarence F. 

Fallis, Gus L. 



Flynn, Louis 
Girolamo, Guiseppe 
Glanville, Keener 
Gottlieb, Joseph 
Gradley, John J. 
Halpin, Maurice 
Hanley, Roy 
Harris, Paul G. 
Hughes, Ralph K. 
Hunn, John D. 
Jones, Edward 
Klein, Morris 
Kreamer, James J. 
Laughlin, James 
Lawson, Everett, L. 
Lawson, John H. 
Laycob, David 
Lazarus, Willis H. 
Lisch, William H. 
Logan, Wallace S. 
Louis, Sidney 
Lyons, Leon N. 
McCarthy, Ray O. 
Manrikes, Lawrence 
MartenSj Charles 
Mercurio, Phillip 
Milford, Scott 
Miller, Edward T. 
Moffit, William j. 
Moody, John W. 



Needles, Sam 
O'Brien, Michael F. 
Palm, Floyd M. 
Randall, Louis V. 
Peters, Harry W. 
Porcelli, Peter, Jr. 
Roberts, Dewey 
Roberts, Walter 
Roos, Clyde E. 
Rose, Ezra 
Rottler, August M. 
Rozmirsky, Edmund 

S. 
Schoemaker, William 

^ J- 

Schrammel, Peter 
Schultz, Jack T. 
Silch, Wilham E. 
Smith, Alfred E- 
Smith, Charles R. 
Smith, Percy G. 
Smith, William A. 
Somerville, Clayton 
Theobald, Jake 
Thompson, William 
Tracy, Joseph P. 
Watsonj Floyd 
Weber, Frederick I/. 
Young, Frank H. 
Zerillo, Dominick 



Captain, 

Alexander C. McDon- 
ald 
1st Lieutenant, 

William H. Leahy 
2d Lieutenant, 

Harry J. Myers, Jr. 
1st Sergeant, 

Funck, George F. 
Sergeants : 

Koons, Raymond F. 

Van Sickler, William 
H. 

Sweeney, William F. 

McNicholas, Joseph 

Taussing, Warren A. 

McFarland, William 
G. 

Fullerton, Samuel B. 
Corporals : 

Michenfelder, Albert 
A. 

Erman, William F. 

Hambuechen, Louis 
P. 

McHale, Ernest R. 

Hofman, William S. 

Wick, Jerry 

Shock, Fretwell 



COMPANY H 
St. Louis 

Alexander, Harry W. 

Fierce, Francis M 

Dunham, Edward M. 

Goddard, Stimson W. 

Hampel, Roy F. 

Malton, William 
Mechanic: 

Kostick, Sil 
Cooks: 

McFarland, Ronald 
V. 

Spirros, Louis J. 

Clayton, Cleo C. 
Bugler, 

Carnella, Joseph M. 
Privates: 

Abraham, George C. 

Acki, Joseph 

Allen, John G. 

Bartels, Sidney S. 

Brennan, William T. 

Brown, Herbert M. 

Burns, William J. 

Carpenter, George W. 

Carter, John W. 

Caulfield, Eugene J. 

Chadsey, Hubert A. 

Chamberlain, Harold 
B. 



Crawford, Tom R. 
Dodd, Randell S. 
Eaton, Harvey 
Echternkamp, Clar- 
ence 
England, Harry E. 
Elder, Howard J. 
Fagan, George E. 
Ficke, Walter E- 
Fitter, Samuel 
Frick, Joseph G. Jr. 
Green, John P. 
Griffey, Herbert E. 
Halpin, Elmer G. 
Harkins, Clarence V. 
Haydn, Paul 
Heard, Herbert 
Hill, Landon W. 
Hoener, Edward W. 
Hoflfman, Henry 
Hurst, Andrew E. 
Joo, John 
Kearn, Frank L. 
Keller, John L. 
Krieshok, John 
Lang, Julian W. 
Lefers, Arthur B. 
Leonard, Elmer 
Lessley, May G. 



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Lookiebill, William 

A. 
Lovvarn, Jesse R. 
McCarthy, Thomas K. 
McCarty, John 
McGee, Fred J. 
Mclvoney, Robert G. 
Meltner, August C. 
Metalovic, Nickolo 
Mishaker, ]\Tax 
O'Connell, William T. 
Orf, Edward Tl. 



Owens, Henry C. 
Paczos, Alexander 
Patton, Fred H. 
Patton, Roy F. 
Pendill, Landon W. 
Pendill, William F. 
Portlock, Jefferson 
Price, Fdward J. 
Riemann, Fdward 
Rosenbalm, Dewey A. 
Ruebel, Daniel A. 
Ryan, Raymond M. 



Schroer, Fdward 
Schuman, Fdward 
Shaffer, Newell B. 
Sprietzer, William 
Sullivan, William L,. 
Swain, Frank 
Thompson, WilHam 

A. 
Travers, James A. 
Walker, Clarence M. 
Wolfson, Simon 
Zeigler, Harris J. 



Captain, 

Robert Fullerton, Jr. 
1st Lieutenant, 

Samuel H. Allen 
2d Lieutenant, 

Oliver W. Spencer 
1st Sergeant, 

Bach, Rudolph C. 
IMess Sergeant, 

Heetlield, Raymond 
Supply Sergeant, 

Culbertson, Linn N. 
Sergeants: 

Boehing, Clarence J. 

Burcham, William F. 

Keough, William B. 

Lobsinger, William F. 

Okel, John L. 

Semon, Frank F. 

Will, William D., Tr. 

Wilson, George 
Corporals : 

Fling, John H. 

Frerichs, Leo H. 

Gockel, John L. 

Hall, Charles D. 

Ireland, Benjamin L. 

Kekich, Emil A. 

Deough. Frank T. 

King, Harry F. 

Lang, Ferdinand B. 

Link, Erwin F. 

Niemeyer, Fred L. 

Oehmsted, Donald 

Schumann, Edward F. 

Zapf, Harry C. 
Cooks : 

^Tartino, Tony 

Watzig, Edward 
Mechanics: 

Kaas, James T. 

Kidd, James L. 



COMPANY I 

St. Louis 

Buglers : 

AiciViahon, John R. 

Warren, Lorraine E. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bedell, Wilham H. 

Boatright, Thomas 

Cassii, Lawrence J. 

Clark, John C. 

Frerichs, William H. 

Gates, Morris 

Hoelscher, Raymond 
F. 

Kiely, Charles 

Netteler, George P. 
Jr. 

Penzler, Arthur 

Powell, Walter W. 

Priest, Vincil M, 

Rose, Pierre W 

Ruby, Edward A. 

Sass, Walter H. 

Sauer, John 

Thompson, John H. 

Tondro, Peter R. 

Wahoff, Frederick 

Westing, Albert J. 

Wilms, George 

Zahner, Wilferd J. 
Privates : 

Abramson, Herbert L- 

Abramson, Sidney L- 

Adams, Fred G. 

Baker, Frank J. 

Bannon, David 

Barron, Osmond M. 

Buchanan, Charles F. 

Burgolty, George 

Bykowski, Stanislav 

Cameron, Anthony M. 

Carrico, Wm. 

Cepicky, John G. Jr. 

Dickinson, Lewis A. 

Dickmann. William 

Domino, William 

Epperson, Charles PI. 



Evans, John J. 
Ferguson, Troy E. 
Fox, James E. 
Galpin, Willard H. 
Gambino, Salvatore 
Gard, Charles E. 
Gates, Sidney 
Gertken, Joseph 
Gooseman, Irvm H. 
Graham, Joseph 
Gregory, William O. 
Heetfield, Delmar A. 
Hite, James H. 
Hughes, John J. 
Jesse, Ross 
Kajszo, Andrew 
Kelly, James W. 
Klose, Raymond A. 
Laks, Walter 
Laurent, Ludwig F- 
Lewis, Joseph E. 
Lockhart, Homer O. 
McCool, Fred W. 
McCoy, James 
McGuigan, James T. 
O'Brien, William j. 
O'Malley, Charles T. 
Peters, Clyde J. 
Prost, WilHam V. 
Rakey, Walter 
Rausch, Ira A. 
Rieman, Clarence 
Roethig, Fred J, 
Sears, Joseph 
Shearon, Roger 
Smith, Roy L. 
Staat, Michael F. 
Stahl, Erwin O. 
Stoll, William J. 
Tourville, Archie C. 
Uriwal, Henry 
Ward, John 
White, Edward 
Wilmes, Edward 
Zalner. Gilbert H. 
Zalewski, Frank 



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Captain, 

John F. Oberwinder 
1st Lieutenant, 

Sylvester C. Judge, Jr. 
2d Lieutenant, 

William W. Suther- 
land 
Mess Sergeant, 

Jones, Clarence E. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Coste, Felix W. 
Sergeants : 

Peller, Joseph R, 

Schwab, John A, 

Perry, William 

Riester, Leroy M. 

McCole, Dan H. 

Tenim, William D., Jr. 

Mare, William S. 

Halman_, Fugene 
Corporals : 

Groffmann, Charles 

Boelling, Jerome H. 

Bergen, Howard S 

Broyer, Oscar, Jr. 

Schall, Fugene A. 

Stanick, Stanley 

Harrison, John A., Jr. 

Kemper, Fmerson M. 

Goff, Lee T. 

Tapscott, Jo J. 

Gildersleeve, Charles 
F. 

Bell, Godwin ?. 

McCrady, Roy 

Austin, Daniel W. J. 

Mitcham, Wilson M. 

Travis, Malcom M, 
Cooks: 

Hoke, William F. 

Andrews, Peter 

Sullivan, John R. 
Mechanics : 

Parson, Dell D. 

Schuster, Joseph 
Buglers: 

Knight, Donald S. 



COMPANY K 

St. Louis 

1st Class Privates: 
Beyert, Henry 

Carroll, William C. 

DeVelder, Frank T. 

Dillon, Millard D. 

Drescher, Donald N. 

Fitzsimmons, Law- 
rence 

Gossler, Harold F. 

Grote, Harry A. 

Hatch, Richard 

Hatzfield, Walter J. 

Jordan, Harry M. 

Kirchoff, Fdward H. 

Knapp, George G. 

Kolar, William, Jr. 

Lamm, Joseph B. 

Long, Harlan C. 

Mitchell, Charles J. 

Moody, Halbert 

Pappageorge, Basil 

Rozier, Felix C. 

Shotwell, Richard T. 

Valentine, George 

Webb, Albert C. 
Privates: 

Anny, Roy V. 

Armstrong, William 

Barcikowski, Wincenty 

Binger, John H. 

Birmingham, Peter M. 

Bradley, Lawrence H. 

Brown, Fdgar M. 

Budzisiewski, Stan- 
slaw 

Coffey, William F. 

Daly, Thomas F. 

Dangus. August 

Flder, Fvert B. 

Fanning, William M. 

Flynn, Thomas J. 

Folsom, Arlington J. 

Freese, William F. 

Golumbienske, Walter 

Greenberg, Morris 

Greenwell, James S. 

Grimm, John 

Groark, John T. 

Hager, Frank G., Jr. 



Hayden, Herbert F. 

Houston, Albert 

Huber, Allan C. 

Huskey, John 

Hutcheson, Shelby T, 

Karbe, Hunter G. 

Keith ly, John \V. 

Kelly, Charles F., Jr. 

Kennedj^, Daniel 

Kristopoules, Aristi- 
des P. 

Krone, Claude N. 

Krumpelmann, Wil- 
liam M. 

Lamm, FIdrige G. 

McDonough, Patrick 

Malon, Joseph 
Meyer, Harry F. 
Miller, John 
JNlontgomery, Garwin 

F. 
Mumpton, James F, 
Murphy, William J. 
Needle, Sam 
Papadakos, Antonis 
Parker, William A. 
Parrish, Glenn 
Policy, Fdward A. 
Robinson, Louis 
Sarason, Joseph H. 
Schaft'erkoetter, Perry 

F. 
Schneider, Joseph 
Schneider, Otto C. 
Shaw, William N. 
Smith, John L. 
Steigameier, Fdwin 
Thornas, James M. 
Thompson, Garnett G. 
Tippy, Forrest W. 
Wander, Oliver W. 
Wayland, Charles S. 
Weiler, Julius F. 
Welsh, Thomas 
Williams, Charles 
Wittbrodt, Arthur 
Wojcicki, Wladvslaw 
Worstenhohn, George 



Captain, 

Dwight F. Davis 
1st Lieutenant 

Leo W. Orf 
2d Lieutenant. 

Theodore Hunt 



COMPANY L 

St. Louis 

1st Sergeant 

McDonough, Arthur L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Kalkman, George W. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Hoener, August D. 



Sergeants : 

Arnold, Robert F. 
Benoist, Theodore. Ji 
Brown, Sydney W. 
Bunn, Milo B. 
Hughes, Russell F. 



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Major, John T, 

Schroeder, Roberts J. 

Weigel, Karl W. 
Corporals : 

Blair, Giles A. 

Bolger, John R. 

Brink, Ernest F. 

Burnett, Frederick \V 

Bushman, Henry R. 

Carroll» James T- 

Cuddy, Oliver F. 

Button, Joseph B. 

Giessenbeier, Henry 
Jr. 

Killian, Robert Lee 

Richter, John B. 

Robinson, Walter D. 

Rottmann, Fli F. 

True, Robert W. 
Cooks : 

Scully, James P. 

Haufe, Richard C. 

Stratmann, Leo N. 
Mechanics : 

Anderson, Frank F. 

Reitter, Roland L. 
Buglers: 

Dowell, James AL 

Heckenkamp, Joseph 
H. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bailey, John W. 

Bollinger, WiHiam 

Brinkman, Bert 

Brockmeyer, Edgar 
W. 

Delaney, James L . 

Dierkerj Harry J. 

Fallert, Edgar J. 

Flood, John J. 

Fcrtin, George L. 

Grant, Frank W. 

Hanning, Oscar 

Huebner, Robert L. 

Kreyling, Christian 
W. 

Matthews, George 

Peterson, Allan 



Portmann, Arthur J. 

H. 
Powers, Joseph M. 
Price, Alonzo V. 
Sass, Carl H. 
Shaw, Lester 
Silver, Max M. 
Thomas, John H. 
V^ander Pluym, Ben 
V'inyard, Walter L. 
Wood, Thomas F. 
Zeisler, Frank P. 
Privates : 

Allen, Elmer V. 
Aubuchon, Dan Jr. 
Aubuchon, Elmer 
Bennett, Benjamin C, 

Jr. 
Bishop, David R, 
Bishop, William B. 
Borman, Frederick J. 
Boyd, Edgar L. 
Brenn, Harry R. 
Brennan, Edward B. 
Bruns, Eugene H. 
Bubia, Edwin 
Cain, Edward J. 
Coleman, Raymond R. 
Cooper, William H. 
Court, Louis H. 
Cunningham, James 
Diesselhorst, Wilke 
Dillard, Joseph P. 
Eakle, Harmon S. 
Ebenrick, Harry O. 
Frentzel, Leo A. 
Gabriel, Joseph 
Gauvin, Lawrence J. 
Giblin. Leo F. 
Gisi, Herman O. 
Goldschmidt. Albert 
Graff, Joseph 
Grunwald, Herman F. 
Guithues, John H. 
Haley, Martin T. 
Hartigan, John R. 
Hedtkamp, Roy 
Hoffmann, Edgar W. 



Kennedy, James W. 

Kennedy, Robert J. 

Kruep, Alois H. 

Lamb, Luke, Ji. 

Landrum, George W. 

Lee, Edward R. 

Lowder, George H. 

Lyons, William J, 

McGowan, Joseph H. 

Maker, Clifford E. 

Messmer, William R. 

Mik, Frank A. 

Miller, Harry J. 

Ninker, Walter A. 

Nolle, Glenn W. 

O'Brien, Edward A. 

O'Brien, Hugh 

O'Brien, Thomas 

O'Donnell, Dan 

Ogle, Harley 

Padfield, Russell S. 

Phillips, George A. 

Pilkington, Harry M. 

Pitzer, Tom W. 

Roddy, Elmer 

Russell, Harold B. 

Schaeffer, Albert E- 

Schaeffer, Roy J. 

Schleusner, Lawrence 
R. 

Schroer, Alfred H. 

Schulz, Fred C. 

Sheridan, Charles C. 

Shoults, Ira 

Sickerman, Harry 

Slevin, Edward t., Jr. 

Smith, James L. 

Soberman, Sam 

Stapf, Charles 

Stolberg, Kenneth M. 

Sumner, Elmo J. 

Tavlor, Max W. 

Todd, Robert A. 

Vander Pluym, Ed- 
ward 

Wightman, Paul V. 

Wild, Joseph 1.. 

Young,' Harry R. 



Captain, 

Hugh McK. Jones 
1st Lieutenant, 

William F. Uthoff 
2d Lieutenant, 

George M. Hagee 
1st Sergeant, 

Hurley, Thomas W. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Sherman, Frank W. 



COMPANY M 
St. Louis 

SupTily Sergeant. 

Ryan, Edward J. 
Sergeants: 

Bray, John S. 

Murphy, Frank J. 

Southward, Dudley W 

Payne, William C. 

Sidman, Stanlev A, 

Horn, Leslie W. 

Wieman, Harry R. 



Corporals: 

Bainum, Jean H. 
Mursinna, LeRcy C. 
Robertson, LeRoy I. 
Aubuchon, Clifford 

W. 
Fallis, Lyman J. 
Stamm, Edward H. 
Calvin, Thomas C. 
Aldag, Edgar J. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Paisley, William E. 

Zimmer, William J. 

Batdorf, M. Schuyler 

Knickerbocker, Wil- 
liam J. 

Muench, T. Frank 

Nelson, Arthur S. 

Harris, Alfred M. 

Reiliey, Bonner D. 

Copeland, Clarence l£. 
Cooks : 

Meyer, John H. 

Nebcrgall, Beryl 

Barton, Frank A. 
iNtechanics: 

Riely, James W. 

Isbell, Grills W. 
Bugler, 

Mass, Ira 
1st Class Privates: 

Brooker, Benjamin S. 

Byers, Kennedy 

Christopher, Wilbur I. 

Close, John L- 

Crosby, Isaac F. 

Dapron, Oliver L. 

Davis, Curtis L. 

Dornsief, Edwin H. 

Foster, Hopestill 

Higgins, Frank C. 

Jordan, Theodore V. 

Julius, William J. 

LeRoi, William J. 

Mix, Samuel M. 

O'Brien, Algernon 

Rather, Victor 

Rauschkolb, Charles 
O. 

Sellers, Maurice C. 

Spies, Leo C. 

Wandas, Robert L 

Warren, Edward A. 



Weissenborn, Julius 

S. 
Wenneker, Charles R. 
Wycoff, Ernest 
Privates : 

Ames, Arthur F. 
Bartig, Louis I. 
Bates, Oral E. 
Bather, Harley E. 
Beucke, Thomas E. 
Boland, Zona V . 
Bollman, Fred W. 
Boone, Hudson W. 
Breeden, Steve 
Caton, Paul B. 
Clogston, Walter F. 
Corner, George 
Costello, Bernard G. 
Davis, Walter W. 
Doerner, Charles J. 
Duckworth, Charles H. 
Duncan, Archie M. 
Duncan, George L. 
Evers, Louis E. 
Farrell, Noble R. 
Gephardt, Robert A. 
Gilliland, Jesse J. 
Griffin, James P. 
Heinsohn, Henry C. 
Helling, Martin H. 
Henslerj John W. 
Herz, Aloys J. 
Hoppe, Charles T. 
Hough, Daniel P. 
Irvin, Edward F. 
Tames, Richard K. 
Keller, Albert C. 
Kloppenberg, Frank 

J. 
Krueger, Charles 
Krueger, William C. 
Kussman, Frederick 

Larson, Gerhardt 



Lenauer, Lawrence C. 
T'-lcDonnell, John E. 
Mayes, Roy L. 
Mayer, Joe J. 
Meyers, Charles H 
Mountjoy, Louis E. 
Myers, Benjam.m H. 
Otis, James N. 
Peterson, William F. 
Pfeififer, Hugo E. 
Pomorsky, Waclaw 
Ptaszynski, Constant 
Racine, Alois J. 
Reed, Benjamin W. 
Reed, Edward 
Remmert, Harrv W. 
Roberts, William C. 
Roulston, William K. 
Schaetzel, Walter L. 
Sclieer, Rienhard H. 
Schmutz, Otto R. A. 
Schoelich, William F. 
Scott, Stewart AI. 
Sidmon, Edward H. 
Smith, Walter F. 
Sparks, Charles E. 
Stadler, Edward H. 
Stewart, John W. 
Stock, Edwin H. 
Stockdale, Tames R. 
Studds, William J. 
Stulce, Raymond A. 
Thurmond, John F. 
Vaughn, Robert H. 
Walker, John J. 
Walker, Seth H. 
Wallic, Frank 
Wedepohl, August C, 

Jr. 
White, Lawrence P. 
Willis, Earl E. 
Wolken, Louis R. 
Wright. William B. 
Zydat, Henry 



SANITARY DETACHMENT 
St. Louis 



William S. Lawrence 
1st Lieutenant, 

Roland S. Kieffer 
1st Lieutenant, 

James R. Bunch 
1st Lieutenant, 

James C. Drake 
1st Lieutenant, 

William J. Reynolds 
Privates : 

Barrett, George J. 

Barrett, Richard J. 



Brown, Churchill II. 

I'arr, Frank D. 

Catleet, Charles J. 

Devine, John F. 

Duerr, Sidney E. 

Freeman, Jesse Ed- 
ward 

Freeman, William J. 

Hamilton, Edward V. 

Heneghan, Leo P. 

Hildebrand, Fred 

Kirkland, William M. 

Knox, Wilbur D. 

Lenihan, Owen Jos- 
eph 



McGuire, Clvde F. 
Miller, George S. 
Moerschen, Sam 
Niehoff, Joseph 
Perkins, Paul W. 
Prather, Robert R. 
Presneli, Roswell P. 
Rayburn, Samuel L. 
Reichert, William 
Ross, Leland M. 
Schumann, Adolph W. 
Shields, William H. 
Turner, Lewis J. 
Wolff, Charles 
Yowell, Albert N. 



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FIRST REGIMENT FIELD ARTILLERY 



Colonel, 

Frank M. Rumbold, 
Commanding 
Lieutenant Colonel, 

Walter J. Warner 



FIELD AND STAFF 
St. Louis 

Major, 

Robert C. Rutledge 
Major, 

Daniel F. Joaes 
Captain, 

Horace S. Rumsey 



Captain, 

Franklin S. Wiltse 
Captain, 

Robert M. Crutsinger 
Veterinarian, 

Ora P. Davis 



HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
St. Louis 



Captain, 

James L,. Turner 
1st Lieutenant, 

Theodore A. Salorgne 
Rgt. Sergeant Major, 

Patterson, George L- 
Bn. Sergeant Major, 

Lawrence, Frank F. 
Rand Leader, 

Phillips, William N. 
1st Sergeant, 

McArthur, Howard F 
Color Sergeant, 

Baird, Robert A. 
Mess Serg;eant, 

Hamburg, Herman 
Sergeant Bugler, 

Foreman, Herrick J. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Kenna, Thomas J. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Geyer, Robert D. 
Sergeants : 

Crews, Milton K. 

Morris, Oscar J. 

Boyce, John F. 
Band Sergeant, 

Silberberg, Jules F. 
Corporals : 

McElwee, Claude 

McNulty, John F. 

Snowden, "William C. 

Parker, Walter D. 

Webster, Clarence 



McKee, Dean F- 

Lynn, James V. 

Morrison, Arthur Q. 
Band Corporal, 

Bartels, Herman 
Horseshoers : 

Anderson, Tobin 

Hillin, Jesse D. 
^Mechanic, 

Trefz, Walter 
Cook, 

Gillespie, Harvey 
1st Class Privates: 

Beardslee, James F. 

Carleton^ Hope D. 

Jarrett, William M. 

Morrison, Gordon G. 

Murphy^ Alfred C. 
Privates : 

Byrd, Edward D, 

Evans, Ralph H. 

Fertig, Arthur J. 

Fletcher, Frank H. 

French, Benjamin 

Glancy, James V. 

Good, Louis F. 

Hawken, Granville 

Hoester, Charles J. 

Hotchkiss, Clarence 

Tohnson, Myron T. 

Kiefifer, Alonzo R. 

Kincannon, James L. 

Kleiber, Edward J. 

Lessing, Eugene B. 

McGrath, Harold D. 

Mahoney, Robert 



Matkin, Frank W. 
Molter, James E. 
Monteith, James K. 
Norris, Ivan L. 
Norris, William Y. 
Peterson, Robert D. 
Pfaender, Paul W. 
Pfaender, Peter A. 
Schrader, Eugene L. 
Smith, Mauro E. 
Spanuth, Robert W. 
Tidd, Robert E. 
Whipple, Thomas I. 
Williams, Harry Mc. 
Willoughby, Edmund 

A. 
Wright, Faines B. 
Young, Harold K. 
3rd Class Musicians: 
Brammer, George C. 
Deprez, Harold C. 
Edel, Arthur H. 
Ferciot, Charles E. 
Hug, Alexander 
Hughey, Albert S. 
Hurst, Raymond J. 
Jannopoulo, Demos- 
thenes C. 
Leinard, Herbert IT. 
Merker, Frank C. 
Murphy, William H 
Norris, John B. 
Pasek, George B. 
Pitlyk, John J. 
Raymond, Harry L. 
Sievling, Gus 



Captain, 

Ira C. Money 
1st Lieutenant, 

Joseph J. Maddock 



SUPPLY COMPANY 
St. Louis 

Rgt. Supply Sergeant, 
McConnell, Charles 
P. 

Rgt. Supply Sergeant, 
Cord, William H. 



Corporals : 

McClure, Fred L- 
Lowenstein, Vernon J. 



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Privates : 

Beaver, William G. 
Blind, Charles F. 
Case, Howard A. 
Dugger, Huntington 
Goessling, Robert F. 
Hambley, Harold W 
Harty, Roger J. 



Captain, 

Thomas J. Christmann 
1st Lieute_nant, 

Arthur J. Zerr 
1st Lieutenant, 

Kenneth, B. Buchanan 
2d Lieuteijant, 

Charles A. Barlow 
2d Lieutenant, 

Lloyd Coleman 
1st Sergeant, 

Brown, Phillip V. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Fisher, Geo. L. 
Stable Sergeant : 

Thomure, William A. 
Jr. 
Sergeants : 

Hill, Raymond D. 

Norton, Howard C. 

Baldenweck, Arniand 

Onions, Clarence 

Rierdan, John 

Bull, David M. 
Corporals : 

Warneke, William B. 

Craig, Walter T- 

Harrison, Arthur M. 

Goeble, Edwin C. 

Buchanan, Edwin C. 

Whitman, Paul L. 

Quinn, John G. 

i5eBusk, Leslie G. 

Warner, Francis S. 

Cunningham, John P. 

Dunham, Francis B. 
Chief Mechanic, 

Altus, Edward H. 
Horseshoer, 

Taucher, Joseph H. 



McCann, Walter J. 
McKenna, George F. 
McNally, William E. 
Malone, Mike R. 
Markel, Fred E. 
Murrell, Samuel A. 
Ort, Jerry B. 



BATTEEY A 
St. Louis 

Saddler, 

Buehning, Edmond A. 
IMechaniCj 

Theobald, Edward E. 
Bugler, 

Herr, Raymond R. 
Cook, 

Bordone^ Angelo 
1st Class Privates: 

Barry, Francis D. 

Barutio, Constantine 
B. 

Boldt, Herbert A. 

Brethauer, George 

Bunchman, Harry J. 

Bunning, William 

Bull, Benjamin 

Butler, John F. 

Cartan, Edward B. 

Campton, Brittan A. 

Dillon, Gerald E. 

Dodd, William W. 

Dolan, Frank 

Dowling, Patrick J. 

Fihn, Emanuel 

Griffin, Emil 

Grote, Henry C. 

Gruner, Ray A. 

Hammerschmidt, Ar- 
thur 

Heitmeier, Elmer V. 

Holloman, William 

Jacobsmeyer, Sidg- 
fried 
Privates : 

Amschler, Joseph A. 

Cooney, Frank J. 

Droney, Thomas T. 

Gerhart, Frank H. 

Joerden, Oliver 



Punshon, Warren D. 
Pyeatt, Charles W. 
Schrader, Lee L. 
Stusse, Martin 
Thompson, Russel E. 
Tryk, Clarence H. 
Venitz, John H. 
Zieger, Herman 



Johnson, John O. 
Kane, Hanlon 
Killian, Roy 
Kinney^ George D. 
Kraft, Clifford O. 
Learmont, Walter A. 
Leppert, Otto W. 
Lowe, Raymond B. 
Luconic, Paul 
McCarthy, John D. 
Michener, Walter L., 

Jr. 
^Mitchell, John 
Mooney, John P. 
Morgan, Asa A. IT. 
Olney, Walter D. C. 
Pallardy, Edward L. 
Parks, James T^. 
Patterson, Robert G. 
Patton, Charles PI. 
Pilkenton, Snoden 
Reid, Walter E. 
Rideout, Horace L. 
Rosskoff, Ray H. 
Shore, Horace 
Skinner, Jason A. 
Sullivan, Edward T. 
Taake, Orville L. 
Turner, Verna V. 
Van Dover. Hite C. 
^"alenti, Nick 
Veselsky, Edward 
Vickers, Stewart T. 
Warnecke, August C. 
Warneke, Max O. 
Weber, Barrett 
Webster, Phillip 
Weibling, Frank B. 
Wilhelmi, Curt 
Wilkerson, Riley D. 
Worthmuller, Frank 



Captain, 

Harry Perks, Jr 
1st Lieutenant, 

Morton Gwin 
1st Lieutenant, 

Donald P. Munro 



BATTERY B 

St. Louis 

2d Lieutenant, 

Eugene B. Snyder 
1st Sergeant, 

Grutsch, Frank L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Lansing, Charles 



Supply Sergeant, 
Lero, George R. 

Stable Sergeant, 
Neuberger, Thomas 
W. 



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Sergeants: 

Fischer, Sylvester ly. 

O'Connor, Thomas 

Messmer, Edgar Li. 

Humniert, Geo. H. 

Dodd, Wallace S. 

Thorburn, Charles 
Corporals : 

Freide, Jerome J. 

Goge, Seymour K. 

Robyne, Paul Jr. 

Little, Douglas M. 

Francis, Jack S. 

Miravalle, Peter S. 

Chaudet, Robert C. 

Fairchild, William F. 

Long, Glen M. 

Saxe, Adolph J. 

Barnicle, Joseph R. 

Rothkopf, John J. 

O' Gorman, Paul J. 
Chief Mechanic: 

Chaudet, William J. 
Horseshoers: 

Barton, Oliver F. 

Neiheiser, William N. 
Mechanic, 

Dodd, William S., Jr. 
Saddler, 

Phelps, John M. 
Cooks : 

Mazza, Silvo 

O'Connor, Patrick J. 

Ratz, Louis H. 
Musicians : 

Wilson, Robert W. 

Allard, Jesse H. 
1st Class Privates: 

Anderson, John P. 



Bock, John H. 
Buehler, Alfred W. 
Christie, John F. 
Daniels, Charles W. 
Dodd, John W. 
Dyer, Roy U. 
Green, William F. 
Higgins, Raymond D. 
Lawson, Charles 
Lewis, Harry R. 
McClure, Fwell C. 
Mullins, James M. 
Neuman, Sidney C. 
Payne, Frank C. 
Reid, Joseph F- 
Rothkopf, George W. 
Thompson, George 
White, Carl O. 
Woodward, Knight 
Alexander, Raymond 
Berry, Henry K, 
Burke, Andrew K. 
Chitwood, Roy L. 
Coghill, Lacey B. 
Crandall, Warren F. 
Dameron, Harry C. 
DePrez, Harold C. 
Dunn, Robert 
Dusard, Rime A. 
Flowers, Luther 
Fournier, Joseph M. 

Franey, John F. 
Gillespie, George 
Goebbels, Lester D. 
Goodrich, Clarence R. 
Gorman, John C. 
Grace, Robert G. 
Grimmer, Fdward F. 



Harkins, Joseph D. 
Heil, Charles T. 
Hill, Flmer 
Hines, Walter V. 
Kuepfort, Adolph 
KuUage, Louis F. 
Layton, Ben M. 
Lessing, Fugene B. 
Long, Charles B, 
Lucas, Charles 
McKeown, Frank R. 
McMurry, John W. T. 
Mazzia, Lionel L. 
Moore, Austin J., Jr. 
Murnahan, George F. 
Murry, John 
Nelson, George Mc, 

Jr. 
Parmele, Howard W. 
Paul, James F. 
Paust, Fugene 
Peet, Fdward C. 
Powell, Gerald J. 
Renick, Elmer F. 
Schelten, George 
Schueler, Otto J. 
Schultz, George L. 
Shannon, Paul A. 
Shelly, James E. 
Siebert, Gilbert C. 
Smith, Stewart L. 
Spink, Fred G. 
Springgate, Vester N. 
TuUy, John J. 
VanDyke, Frank 
Wade, Anderson 
Wenneker, Edgar C. 
White, Lawrence R. 
Wynne, James G., Jr. 



Captain, 

Leon R. Sanford 
1st Lieutenant, 

Frederick L. Zum- 
walt 
1st Lieutenant, 

Richard Moore, Jr. 
2d Lieutenant, 

Raymond D. Grutsch 
2d Lieutenant, 

Raymond F. DeHoog 
1st Sergeant, 

Brown, Valentine J. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Parks, Edward P. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Spelman, James P. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Lewis, Albert 



BATTERY C 
St. Louis 

Sergeants : 

Corrigan, David A. 

McChesney, Ira D. 
S. 

Johnson, Frank L. 

Lindsey, Walter S, 
Corporals : 

Maginn, Robert R. 

Kurtz, Ernest W. 

Dunn, Rodney C, 

Hays, Howell H. 

Spilker, Nathan F. 

Leiweke, Beuno A, 

Grady, Clarence T, 

Swehla, Martin 

Fngelman, Otto B. 

North, John J. 

Hoscheid, Theodore 
T., Jr. 



Newliam, Joseph H. 

Reid, James A. 
Chief Mechanic, 

Toms, Leland J. 
Horseshoers, 

Levvy, Sidney A. 
Mechanic, 

Snoddy, Sam R, 
Cook, 

Fowler, William H. 
Buglers: 

Robertson, Page C, 

Wood, Samuel E. 
1st Class Privates: 

Daly, John J. 

Dempsey, Robert C. 

Dickey, Charles J. 

Dygard, Thomas J. 

Essen, John S., Jr. 



348 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Fitzgerald, Michael J. 

Glass, Thomas N. 

Gleeson, Vincent P. 

Hesse, Henry 

Knight, Orville B. 

Kramer, William E. 

Kreutzer, August F. 

Lonergan, Christo- 
pher J. 

Luyties, Carl W. 

McGinnis, Charles E. 

Schiller, Henry F. 

Sullivan, Bernard H. 

Thatenhorst, Freder- 
ick F. 

Whitelaw, Robert F. 

Whitney, Ben C. 

Wilder, Leonard T. 

Wilke, Edgar B. 
Privates : 

Clukies, Clarence 



Drusch, Allen A. 
Dugger, Lee 
Foster, Lon 
Galleano, Anthony J. 
Garrett, George J. 
Gill, Floyd B. 
Hesse, Joseph C. 
Hoffmann, Walter 
Jacques, Maurice J. 
Knibb, Paul J. 
Leary, Frank 
Liberty, George 
McCarty, Thomas 
McCarthy, William F. 
Mantino, John 
Miller, Edwin 
Miller, Roy 
Moormann, Theodore 

A. J. 
Openstein, Karl 
Ponsetti, Tomaso 



Powell, Charles 
Preis, William A. 
Rippley, Gregory 
Rozier, Roy J. 
Samplesj Edgar 
Schmucker, Paul G. 
Schroeder, Charles A. 
Sinock, Rudolph H. 
Sisk, Andrew J. 
Smicker, William G. 
Sponemann, Paul F. 
Steele, Roy 
Steingrubey, Harry F. 
Stevens, Acy Lee 
Stiers, Herman 
Stoker, Thomas 
Tirrell, Arthur 
Tryke, Andrew P. 
Tuma, Joseph A. 
Wilson, Joseph R. 
Yadon, John 



Captain, 

Edward Fehlig 
1st Lieutenant, 

Eugene C. Ferrenbach 
1st Lieutenant, 

August H. Hanold 
2d Lieutenant, 

Frederick T. Thor- 
burn 
2d Lieutenant, 

George B. Cunning- 
ham 
1st Sergeant, 

Gates, Joseph S. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Vaughn, Harry H. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Hamilton, Samuel C. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Curley, Leo W. 
Sergeants : 

Jones, Alanson B. 

Johnson, William S. 

Maguire, James H. 

Drew, Francis A. 

Rannells, Warder 
Corporals: 

Chase, Ralph K. 

Bakewell, George 

Leimkuehler, Francis 
R. 

Bannantine, George 

Moll, Paul 

Todd. Wilson 

Price, Louis H. 

Straube, Louis H. 

Gray, Charles A. 

Espy, Cullen 



BATTERY D 
St. Louis 

Mechanics: 

Aldridge, Charles A. 

O'Neill, Raymond A. 
Horseshoers : 

Bruemleve, Walter 

Klag, Clarence 
Saddler, 

Schneider, Julfus F. 
Buglers, 

Reed, John W. 

Dockery, Joseph T. 
Cooks: 

Watkins, Charles J. 

Witholder, Ben F. 

VVaffensmith, George F. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bown, Walter T. 

Craden, John P. Jr. 

Dunlap, Paul R. 

Edelmann, Samuel 11. 

English, John M. 

Hoffman, Fred C. 

Holden, John W., Jr. 

Holdman, Lee O. 

Horine, Harry T. 

Johnson. James P. 

Kane, Edmund N. 

Lavin, Samuel 

Lucas, Morton 

McBride, John T. 

McGowan, James T. 

McNulty, George A. 

Scanlon, Lee D. 

Sprdling, Earl 

Stewart. Eugene H. 

Veinfurt, Harry F. 

Wilson, Walter T. 

Zeitinger, Edward A. 



Privates: 

Anderson. Clayborn L 
Beattie, Orren C. 
Bendyk, Frank 
Biederman, Joseph 
Bock, Leo J. 
Boen, Noah S. 
Boyd, Isaac N. 
Brockmeier, Fred 
Brooks, Emmett H. 
Brune, Ben T. 
Buffington, Walter G. 
Burford, Fred 
Butler, Charles 
Callaway, Clayton V. 
Cantin, Frederick J. 
Caruthers, Stanley R. 
Coldewe, Frank R, 
Condon, John F. 
Conley, John J, 
Conrad, Louis 
Cook, James A. 
Crecelius, Oliver W. 
Crews, George W. 
Davenport. Harold A. 
DeWitt. William C. 
Eads. James H, 
Eckelkamp, Leander 

V. 
Ellison, John T. 
Fisher, Edgar C. 
Forshee, Amiel A. 
Funke, Theodore H. 
Garvey, Sylvester 
Gray, Charles M. 
Hannefin, Daniel J. 
Hardcastle, George C. 
Hicks, WilHam H. 



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Holt, George W. 
Holtmeier, Louis 
Jaeger, Arthur H. 
Johnson, Harry A. 
King, Charles W. 
Kirkpatrick, Walter 
Kopf, George C. 
Krafft, Edward C. 
Lansing, Geo W. 
Lauman, William G. 
Lazarides, Kirakos 



Lestmann, Archie IE,. 
Lynch, Lloyd l\. 
Newell, Harry A. 
Newton, Robert B. 
Norrish, Alfred H. 
Rathert, Paul A. 
Sawyer, William J. 
Schultz, Emil 
Schultz, Rupert R. 
Schultz, Walter H. 
Simon, Henry J. 
Smedley, Harry , K. 



Stevens, Joseph K. 
Sullivan, Fred G. 
Sutherd, Eugene C. 
Trawick, Claude 
Walz, Mathew 
Watkins, David A. 
Wilder, Joseph D. 
Williams, Perry 
Williams, Samuel V 
Wodiker, Sylvester 
Wyrozynski, John 



Captain, 

Leslie L. Bucklew 
1st Lieutenant, 

Edward C. Reilly 
1st Lieutenant, 

Alfred L. Sawyer 
2d Lieutenant, 

Chester L. Mars 
2d Lieutenant, 

Robert J. McMurray 
1st Sergeant, 

Snyder, Joicy R, 
Sergeant, 

Gattrell. William S. 
Corporals: 

Ching, Earl R. 

Claypool, Hugh 

Barnby, Archibald W. 

George, Edwin A. 

Johnson, George E. 

Johns, Harry C. 

Kempton, Lenord H. 

Zeigler, Herbert F. 
Privates : 

Abbott, Ruvia A. 

Alexander, Karl V. 

Anderson, Elza E. 

Baldwin, A. Brown 

Barnett, Earl 

Baucom, Floyd 

Beyer, Romaine 

Bigus, Isadore L. 

Bilyeu, Claude J. 

Boes, Thomas E. 

Brady, Charles A. 

Breitag, Arthur H. 

Brock, Buford B. 

Browning, Robert E. 

Burke, George T. 

Burke, Jerome J. 

Campbell, Edward R. 

Garden, John W. 

Carey, Dennis J. 

Carpenter, Walter B. 

Carpenter, Walton 



BATTERY E 
Kansas City 

Carver, Joe E. 
Chenoweth, Rice B. 
Chenoweth, Stephen 

D. 
Clemments, Robert T. 
Coddington, David I. 
Com.pton, Chas. O. 
Conrick, Robert F. 
Cook, Charles S. 
Davies, Joseph O. 
DeHart, Paul E. 
Demeke, Clarence E- 
Dietzel, Louis H. 
Dillon, George B. 
Dorman, Lee C. 
Duncan, Lee 
EH, Henry W. 
Fields, Hollie 
Fletcher, Rollie E. 
Friend, Robert E. 
Geenens, August 
Geenens, Charley 
Gentry, Giles R. 
Githens, Fred C. 
Greaves, Robert H. 
Groves, John 
Guedry, Charley A. 
Hargrove, Joseph D. 
Harrington, Oliver C. 
Harrfs. Ravmond 
Hartness, Raloh 
Hartnett, Paul F. 
Henneberry, Nicholas 

J. 
TToflFman, Harry 
Hogan, Edward D. 
Hollingshead, George 

S. 
Horigan, Joseph D. 
Horner, William W. 
Howard, Orville A. 
Hubbard, Andrew F. 
Jerk, Arthur C. 
Johnson, Clarence E. 
Tohnson, William E. 
King, James W. 
King, Orville E. 



Langstaff, William O. 
Lashbrook, Mai J. 
Laskey, Harry M. 
Leemans, Prehm F. 
Leitner, Frank M. 
Lewis, Willam C. 
Linsley, Milton G. 
Little, Charles A. 
Little, James E. 
McKinstry, George C. 
Mackintosh, Thomas 

E. 
Madigan, John B. 
Marshall, Robert H. 
Matherly, Marvin P. 
Maxville, William D. 
Maxwell, Stanley 
Miller, Jesse L. 
Miller, John G. 
Miller, John J. 
Mohart, Charles T. 
Morgan, Edward V, 
Morgan, Tames R. 
Mulford. Floyd H. 
Murphy, Donald A. 
Nay, Leon D. 
Newcomber, Guy B. 
Noland, Tames L. 
Olson, William L. 
Parker, Harry J. 
Pickens. William C. 
Pottorfif, Woodson 
Powell, Donald H. 
Rafiner, Elmer L. 
Randell, Arlo E. 
Raybrook, Edward L. 
Redona, Juan B. 
Rice, Freddie L. 
Rosa. Carl A. 
Rosa, Aganito M. 
Rothgeb, Roy R. 
Pundell, Howard O. 
Russell. Walter W. 
Seath, Walter C. 
Severence. Horace W. 
Shanklin. Herbert E. 
Shore, Maurice L. 



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Smith, Ddward D, 
Smith, LeRoy 
Spurlock, Arthur II, 
Stanford. Edward H. 
Stoenner, Edwin D. 
Strader, William B. 
Strother, William L. 



Sutton, William E. 
Taliaferro, Benjamin T. 
Taylor, Leslie E. 
Thatcher, Chris C. 
Thompson, James G. 
Van Den Busselle, 
Paul 



Van Wolleghem, 

Maurice 
\"asey. Earl 
Weeks, John W. 
West, Robert Jr.^ 
Wimer, Lester C. 



Captain, 

Tom L. Gibson 
1st Lieutenant, 

Jack Sabo 
1st Lieutenant, 

David W. Graham 
2d Lieutenant, 

Edward P. Stauder 
2d Lieutenant, 

Thomas E. Horner 
1st Sergeant, 

Grote, Henry C. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Meehan, Cornelius E. 
Stable Sergeant, 

McMahon, Frank V. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Harbison, George M. 
Sergeants : 

Heward, Charles H. 

Bradley^ Charles R. 

Boehmer, Maurice A. 

Creaseyj Roy 

Scanlon, Thomas A. 

Wynne, George K. 
Corporals : 

Busch, Howard G. 

Barton, Roger 

Branch, Carleton C. 

Muench, Oscar A, 

Bryan, George F. 

Harris, James L. 

Darling, Frederick W. 

Blume, David A. 

Smith, Herbert R 

Kniest, Frank V. 

Morrissey, Charles R. 

Tudor, Owen 
Chief Mechanic, 

Gartland, Paul A. 
Mechanics : 

Angell, McKinley L- 

Ames, Lee D. 

Groth, Ben 



BATTERY F 
St. Louis 

Cooks : 

Campbell, Ralph A. 

Stevens, Adolph 
Horseshoers : 

Springston, Elmer J. 

Rodgers, Louis E- 
Saddler, 

D ah lb erg, Arthur 
1st Class Privates: 

Abbot, Alfred A. 

Agnew, Howard B. 

Adam, Jules 

Adams, Eugene J. 

Ahlmeyer, Edwin J. 

Albertson, Albert G. 

Arbuchon, Leon J. 

Barton, WiUiam M. 

Bayer, Gus 

Black, George D. 

Black, William A. 

Blanton, Jesse W. 

Boardman, Charles H. 

Bowles, Thomas M. 

Bradbury, Albert E. 

Bradley, Frank A. 

Bray, William H. 

Buddemeyer, Walter 
C. 

Buffington, Taylor M. 

Baessler, Fred 

Becker, Charles F. 

Campbell, James S. 

Calcaterra, Fiorella 

Cassidy, George W. 

Cody, Charles F. 

Combs, Edward I. 

Cope, William 

Craig, John R. 

Croak, John E. 

Crow, Herman J. 

Crutsinger, Joha I\I, 

Cuba, Tony E. 

Dallas, Barth 

Davis, Edwin G. Jr. 

Doyle, Shelby H. 



Etcheson, Oscar 
Feldmiller, William 
Furry, Leon 
Headrick, William T. 
Hamilton, John H. 
Henglesberg, George 

C. 
Heyssel^ Alonzo E. C 
Howard, Elmer 
Howard, Harvey L. 
Higgins, William J, 
Hischier, Herman A. 
Huber, Joseph E. 
Jones, David P. 
Kaliha, John 
Kettingher, John A. 
King, William J. 
Kinsella, Raymond S. 
Klusmeyer, Elmer A. 
Limbaugh, Martin G. 
McDonald, Chester C. 
McMillen, Charles E- 
Malby, James T. 
Pierce, Rice A., Jr. 
Prevallet, Emmet L. 
Quinn, Edward J. 
Reed, Anthony J. 
Rehm, Carl G. 
Sarrels, Horace E. 
Schmuke, Aloysious 

V. 
Schwentker, Charles 
Seals, Martin W. 
Shapard David 
Sheehan, Charles J. 
Smith, Cordell S. 
Steffen, William J., Jr. 
Stevinson, Isral B. 
Stoerkel, Carl 
Stumborg, Frank T. 
Stulce, James D. 
Todd, Joel D. 
Vance, William J. 
Vandefriffe, Emmet S. 
Wellenkamp, Henry F. 
Woodruff, Emery 



Major, 

Louis T. Pirn 



SANITARY DETACHMENT 
St. Louis 

1st Lieutenant, 1st Sergeant, 

Arthur J. Murphy Bloom, Clifton T. 



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Sergeants : 

Peatross, Samuel B. 

Korte, Francis J. 
Privates : 

Breathauer, Charles G. 

Clardy, Zeno B. 



Cour, Claude J. A. 
Crews, Norman K. 
Duchouquette, John 
Dunn, Hugh L,. 
Glynn, John T. 
Moellman, George J. 



Muller, John Kmil 
Salzgeber, Hei-bert 
Slattery, William IT. 
Waugh, Turner ly. 
Wayman, Frederick D. 
Young, Thomas EJ. 



SECOND REGIMENT FIELD ARTILLERY 



Colonel, 

Karl D. Klemm, 

Commanding 
Lieutenant Colonel, 

Arthur J. Klliott 



FIELD AND STAFF 

Kansas City 

Major, 

John h. :\Iiles 
Major, 

Marvin H. Gates 
Captain & Rgt. Adjt. 

Fielding I.. D. Carr 



Captain & Bn. Adjt, 
John H. Thatcher 

Captain & Bn. Adjt., 
Harry M. Boyer 

1st lyieut. & Chaplain, 
Curtis ly. Tierman 



HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

Kansas City 



Captain, 

Chauncy G. Butter- 
field 
1st lyieutenant, 

Fugene T. Rainey 
Rgt. Sergeant Major, 

Poindexter, Francis 
Bn. Sergeant Major, 

Sapp, Kitt 
1st Sergeant, 

Curtis, Edward T. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Riffle, Kussell H. 
Supply Sergeant, 

McManigal, Thomas 

Stable Sergeant, 

White, Homer C. 
Sergeants : 

Florance, John D. 

Meyer, Carl J. 

Johnson, Gordon l^. 

Hurlburt, Frank A, 
Corporals : 

Hughes, Seibert M. 

Ware, Herbert F. 

Fnglish^ Frank 

Burns, Ralph C. 

Byars, Cooper F. 



Kirk, Minor 

lyane, Hobart F. 

JUeigh, Harry B. 

Henry, Houston T. 

Godley, Fugene 

Berryman, James C. 

Hale, Arthur A. 

Routh, Cedric F. 

Bowman, Fred J. 
Horseshoer, 

Gee, Harry I. 
Mechanics : 

Carlile, Charlie C. 

Vining, L,ewis 
Cooks : 

Jackson, Evert R. 

V^an Tine, Elmer L,. 
Bugler, 

Rice, Earl S. 
1st Class Privates: 

Creasey^ Albert R. 

Guthrie, WilHam F. 
Jr. 

McClune, Murven 

Mercer, George S. 

Mulvihill, Edward F. 

Wallace, W. Raymond 
Privates : 

Broaddus, William E. 



Corder, Jackson 
Davidson, Carl F. 
Dobel, Jerome P. 
Downey, Eeo C. 
Geer, William A. 
Hall, Eugene F. 
Hockensmith, Fred D. 
Horine, Stanley M. 
Jackson, Floyd W. 
Jones, Burnam R. 
Kelly, Harry T. 
Krehm, James M. 
Lancaster, Ray A 
EeBow, Max R. 
Eewis, Alan A. 
McGuire, Frank T. 
Maier, Laurence A. 
Moore, Paul 
Norman, Bond Hughes 
Roseberry, Thomas C. 
Runner, Rolla W. 
Schmidt, Walter P. 
Silcott, Robert F. 
Smith, Clarence B. 
Smith, Mike 
Stout, Duval D. 
Tamblyn, William L- 
Taylor, Lewis E. 
Wilson, Frank 
Woods, Sylvester E. 



Band Leader, 

Crawford, Charles P. 



BAND SECTION 

Kansas City 

Asst. Band Leader, 
Boyington, Howard 



Sergeant, Bugler, 
Gregory, Roscoe D. 



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Band Sergeants: 

Lay, Harry C. 

IJvans, Ernest A. 
Band Corporals: 

Way, Robert 

Ridgell, Edwin C. 

Pitts, Shirley 

Skelley, Joseph A. 
1st Class Musician 

Blood, Sidney 



2nd Class Musician, 

Jenkins, Spencer B. 
3rd Class Musicians: 

Bonar, Harry T. 

Brown, Edwin N. 

Bulls, Harry C. 

Cowan, William J., 
Jr. 

Davis, Harold B. 

Duncan, Everet R. 



Gale, Hobert 
Greene, Robert A. 
Hert, Frederick H. 
Hill, Earl E. 
Mathews, John G. 
Satterfield, Lawrence 
Smock, Lee A. 
Storms, Arthur P. 
Tillery, Forest A. 
Weakley, Denver L. 



Captain, 

Harry C. Jobes 
1st Lieutenant, 

Charles C. Bundschu 
Supply Sergeants: 

Breitenstein, Herbert 
W. 
1st Sergeant, 

Winkler, Lewis C. 
Sergeant, 

Cockrill, Norbom F. 
Corporals: 

Campbell, Phillip D. 

Winters, Thomas M. 
Mechanics: 

Myers, Ora C. 



SUPPLY COMPANY 

Kansas City 

Cooks: 

Hofifs, Henry 

Wheeler, William O. 
Horseshoer, 

Fleshman, Geo. W. 
Wagoners: 

Adams, John O. 

Allen, William" C. 

Demand, Lafayette S. 

Ewing, Albert G. 

Farrow, Earl W. 

Fortner, Alexander C. 

Fortner, George C. 

Hudelson, Gordon 

McCullah, John W. 

May, Joe 

Morrow, Louis J. 

Murphy, William H. 



Pendleton, Rice L. 
Powell, Richard G. 
Prussing, Max M. 
Rowland, Benjamin R. 
Schroeder, William 

W. 
Wyatt, Joseph E. 
Yarrington, Alvah C. 
Privates: 

Baker, Jacob 
Denton, Roger H. 
Ham, Holman T. 
Hartman, John W. 
Haynes, Harvey M. 
Moots, Frank 
Smith, Fred A. 
Stevens, Earl A. 
Walters, Patrick M. 



Captain, 

Roy T. Olney 
1st Lieutenant, 

Walter G. Slagle 
1st Lieutenant, 

Charles S. Wengert 
1st Sergeant, 

Robey, Rolla G. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Oakley, Cyrus K. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Aspinwall, Vernie L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Hulen, Charlie C. 
Sergeants, 

Bohrer, Everett L. 

Sullivan, Michael 

Poe, William H. 

Weir, Floyd A. 

Major, Joseph F. 

Pearson, Jack 

Dyer, Charles M. 

Cox, James T. 

Haynes, Maurice E. 



BATTERY A 

Kansas City 

Corporals: 

Bloomer, Arthur 

Dyer, Lowell W. 

Colby, Walter H. 

Dobinson, Elza J. 

Blackburn, Robert C. 

Priest, Donald F. 

Allison, Harold 

Shelton, Charles J. 

Browning, Royce B. 

Maxfleld, Leslie R. 

Dougherty, Lynn 

Reed, Harold 

Pugh, Benjamin D. 

Carver, Lorenzo F. 

Fling, Raymond J. 

Pratt, Clarence W. 

Holcroft, Harry S. 

Lippman, Morris M. 
Cooks: 

Rolls, Ravmond J. 

Garten, Carl T. 

Kelly, Jim 
Chief Mechanic, 

Fike, Austin W. 



Saddler, 

Moore, James F. 
Horseshoers: 

McComas, John A. 

Cummings, Robert T. 

Mann, Carl 
Mechanics. 

Davis, Henry H. 

Cameron, James S. 

Bishop, Arthur E. 
Buglers: 

Saulisbury, William L. 

Smith, Edward R. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bender, Robert W. 

Dennison, Ralph E. 

Dickhut, Lloyd 

Divelbiss, Lyman E. 

Earnheart, Paul 

Eddins, Bryan 

Evans, Charles B. 

Fallstead, Coral C. 

Friedman, Sam C. 

Hill, John W. 

Huestis, Roy 



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Jones, Frank VV. 
L,apides, Clarence I,, 
lyce, Roy N, 
Maienshein, Andrew 
Miller, Arthur 
Miller, Keith 
Minter, Herman K. 
Mooney, Robert L,. 
Moore, Frazer B. 
Nies, Frank R. 
Odell, Jesse C. 
Olney, David H. 
O'Neill, Ray 
Pearson, Lawrence 
Perry, Stewart 
Pollock, Joseph H. 
Rodgers, Glenn 
Schwarzel, William 
Shaw, Ralph EJ. 
Shay, William M. 
Sutton, Charles V. 
Unland, Edwin L. 
2nd Class Privates: 
Acker, Sidney H. 
Allen, Clyde S. 
Altman, Homer 
Babin, Joseph P. 
Baker, Fred 
Baker, LeRoy 
Barrington, Eugene 
Barrington, Fred 
Battliner, Andrew R. 
Beaty, Clarence A. 
Beckett, Finis 
Berry, Carroll W. 
Bigus, Morris 
Blunk, Floyd C. 
Boland, Michael 
Bosworth, Leslie B. 
Boyd, James M. 



Campbell, Harold C. 
Carroll, Claude J. 
Cash, Allen J. 
Cheulakes, Jim 
Chisham, Irving 
Church, Lawrence T. 
Clemence, Thomas 
Connors, Thomas 
Cooley, Ralph K. 
Cooper, John F. 
Coplan, John L. 
Coxhead, Clinton H. 
Craig, John F. 
Crowther, G. Newton 
Delaplain. Richard 
Elliott, Ralph C. 
Ferguson, Eugene R. 
Finn, Charles H. 
Flora, Isaac 
Funk, Jesse E. 
Gamble, John 
Gartman, Louis 
Grover, Benjamin W. 
Hall, Charles A. 
Harper, Roy 
Hendrix, Archie 
Holland, Monta 
Holwick, Charley 
Johnson, Thomas J. 
Jones, Jesse 
Joyce, William P. 
Kelley, George O. 
Kent, Walter J. 
Krueger, Ralph O. 
Lansing, John N. 
Lyon, Otis R. 
Lyon, Sam F. 
McDaniel, Frank 
McDonald, Roy L. 



McGrew, George W. 
Maguire, Paul 
Maroney, Patrfck 
Martin, John P. 
Marvin, Dean 
Menze, Milton E. 
Moore, Fulton 
Morgan, Kirby L. 
Murphy, Alfred W. 
Musselman, James C. 
Newkirk, Everett F. 
Opitz, George W. 
Palmer, Earl E. 
Pawling, William H. 
Pendergast, James M. 
Percell, Donald A. 
Phillips, Harvey C. 
Pounds, Joel L. 
Pugh, Edward E. Jr. 
Reagan, Vance W. 
Richmond, Milford I. 
Rigg, Charles H. 
Rowland, James L. 
Safly, Roy V. 
Shepherd, Clarence H. 
Stauver, Frank L. 
Stone, Adolph C. 
Stump, David O. 
Sydenstricker, Cecil 
Thomas, Sullivan 
Thornhill, Byron E. 
Tozzi, Joseph 
Waechter, Edward H, 
Walton, Wendell G. 
Wearer, Esco R. 
Webb, Victor O. 
Wilmoth, Walter F. 
Wilson, Blake L. 
Woodruff. Doyl B. 
Young, Andrew G. 



Captain, 

Thomas S. McGee 
1st Lieutenant, 

Theodore Marks 
1st Lieutenant, 

Teasley, Walter 
1st Sergeant, 

Seligman, Frederick 
H. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Chesterfield, George 
Stable Sergeant, 

Rule, Curtis T. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Dozier, Homer C. 
Sergeants:, 

Bannister, William K. 

Davis, Condit H. 

Fisher, Frank 

Jewell, Howard W. 



BATTERY B 
Kansas City 

Harvey, Leo E. 

Ferguson, Robert 

Hibbs, Howard L. 
Corporals: 

Meador, Robert F. 

Shreck, Boyd R. 

Barwick, Walter 

Myers, James L. 

Uhlenhop, Rudolph 

Ranson, John W. 

Chilson, Clyde C. 

Weeks, Mark L. 

McDonald, Harry W. 

Freitag, Walter R. 

Wooldridge, Glenwood 
F. 

Miller, Jacob A. 
Musicians: 

Ridge, Joseph A. 

McCauley, Lonnie W. 



Cook: 

Welch, Leo 
Chief Mechanic, 

Branch, Montie 
Mechanics: 

Stafford, Logan 

Robertson, Harry 

Bradley, Delbert H. 
Saddler, 

Dyer, Fred W. 
Horseshoer, 

Frothingham, Alfred 
M. 
1st Class Privates: 

Allen, Marvin E. 

Banholzer, Clarence C. 

Bennett, Earl S. 

Clarke, Floyd H. 

Cone, Thomas N. 

Darling, James 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Davis, Hobart H. 
Erickson, Alfred J. 
Fosdick, Beautord Y. 
Hanna, Raymond J. 
Hans, John H. 
Hart, Charles D. 
Hilgardner, Fred C. 
Mitchell, Harry M. 
Nichols, John E. 
Pillow, James H. 
Provencher, William 

A. 
Richards, Robert L. 
Riley, Augustus M. 
Sawtell, Hobart C. 
Scott, Fred A. 
Sechrist, Floyd H, 
Taylor, Joy O. 
Worster, Joseph R. 
Privates: 

Askins, Claud 
Balz, Alfred 
Banks, Williams J. 
Beck, Robert R. 
Becket, Clinton C. 
Boltman, Harold L. 
Boggs, Thomas A. 
Bowden, Howard T. 
Bowman, Harold J. 
Bowman, Wavne D. 
Branch, Montie B. 
Brown, Clarence O. 
Brown, Kibble J. 
Bucklew, Charles E. 
Burkhardt, James A. 
Canine, George M. 
Carrier, Harvey O. 
Cohen. William H. 
Cole, Morris R. 
Craig, Paul H. 
Cunningham, Jesse J. 
Dancy, Keith W. 
Devrn, Harry E. 
Dietrick, Harold C. 
Donnelly. Edward 
Dozier, Homer C. 



Dyer, Cleon L. 
English, Frank 
Erb, Kennett D. 
Fogel, Sidney M. 
Foland, Ray V. 
Frazier, Walter S. 
Fuller, George M. 
Fuller, Wesley J. 
Galloway, Alexander 
Gauldin, Alva C. 
Greenstone, Morman 
Haguewood, Spurgeon 
Hanna, John P. 
Hare, Harvey E. 
Harmon, Phillip 
Hereford, Francis W. 
Hildebrand, Lawrence 

J. 
Hill, Ernest 
Hinchman, Edwin L. 
Horniday, Jesse R. 
Howard, Jack 
Hughes, David 
Hyatt, Joseph R. 
Ingolia, Sam 
Irvin, Henry 
Jennings, John H. 
Lang, Roy J. 
Ledgerwood, John 
Linman, Oscar 
Love, James 
Lucas, James O. 
Lutz, William O. 
McClung, Wm. T. 
McGrath, Allman 
Macdonaid, Donald 

B. 
MacDonald, Frank E. 
Martin, James E. 
Maxwell. Joseph F. 
Milan, Earl E. 
Milm, Fred C. 
Moore, Joseph E. 
Morrison. Earl W. 
Myers, Harry S. 
Nelson, Joe 



Noggle, Lawrence C. 
Norris, Fred 
North, Robert J. 
Norton, Frank J. 
Norton, Thomas' R. 
Odell, George W. 
Olson, Oxel P. 
Page, Charles G. 
Plumb, Edward W. 
Pottcamp, Rudolph 
Powers, John H. 
Rankin, Arthur B. 
Richardson, James A. 
Roesler, Ray G. 
Rose, William S. 
Rotemund, Frank 
Ruger, Fred J. 
Russell, Thomas H. 
Ruttinger, Frank B. 
Sandifer, Edw. L. 
Sands, John 
Sanstra, Edward L. 
Sanstra, Jesse F. 
Scott, Vol 
Scrivner, Errett 
Smith, Francis C. 
Smith, Ralph J. 
Stewart, Elza L. 
Stubbs, Sherwood O. 
Sutton, Etsel C. 
Swearinger, Harley E. 
Taylor, John H. 
Timmons, Alfred E. 
Tomlinson, Thomas V. 
Troutman, Harry 
Tucker, Horace 
Tutcher, Emmitt 
Ward, William R. 
Welch, Leo 
Wildt, Nickodemus 
Wilson, William R. 
Wood, John D. 
Yancey, Paul W. 
Young, Cogshall C. 
Zavlanes, Tony Z. 



Captain, 

Roger T. Sermon 
1st Lieutenant, 

Kenneth V. Bostian 
1st Lieutenant, 

Edgar G. Hinde 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Frank Jones 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Arthur N. Johason 
1st Sergeant, 

^Searcy, Roy M. 
Sfeble Sergeant, 

Martin, Asa 



BATTERY C 

Independence 

Supply Sergeant, 

Sands, Irving H. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Cushwa, Clay 
Sergeants: 

Montague, Ralph H. 

Ford, Tirey J. 

Jones, Roy W. 

Jackson, Joseph O. 

Coady, Michael 

Knight. Arthur 

Tindall, Frank C. 

O'Neill, Harry C. 

Dietterich, Frank E. 



Corporals: 

Brown, Ira L. 
Rice, Guy N. 
Spradley, Charles E. 
Crayton, Earl C. 
Sands, Maynard M. 
Lowe, Floyd R. 
Yankee, Compton 
Gilmore, Lloyd 
Street, Arthur R. 
Thacker, Ralph 
McFarland, Gilbert F. 
Johnson, William R. 
Smith, George A. 



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Sibale, William L. 

Farrington, Buford E. 

Roberts, Ernest W. 

Duff, Arnold J. 

lyinenbringer, Oliver 

McDonald, Webster 
C. 

Burnham, Edward E. 
Cooks: 

Davenport, Charles B. 

Loback, Chester B. 

Newton, George H. 
Chief Mechanic, 

Rice, Uarry E. 
Mechanics: 

Bazzill, Harry C. 

Ford, Dorrel L. 

Mclnturff, Eugene 
Horseshoers: 

Hamilton, Earnest L,. 

Ramm, Ferdinand 

Chandler, Glenn 
Saddler, 

Kennedy, Thomas F. 
Buglers: 

Delafield, Floyd D. 

Malbaff, Joseph 

Mansell, Emmett L. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bacon, George H. 

Brady, Otis R. 

Brown, Charles E. 

Carmichael, Edgar M. 

Courtland, Mack C. 

Dehoney, Clarence D. 

Doty, Roy 

Durrett, Pearl B. 

Garrett, Fred 

Gilmer, Garnett 

Gualt, Edom A. 

Hedges, William D. 

Tudkins, Tames R. 

Kittle, Edgar 

I/anham, Raymond 



Martin, Emile L. 
Matthews, Kay 
Mayfield, Robert K. 
Phelps, Edward F. 
Ressler, Maurice M. 
Semler, William 
Shook, Robert E. 
Shrock, Keith P. 
Sims, J, Russell 
Smith, Hershel R. 
Smithson, David 
Sullivan, McKinley 
Temple, Orta 
Throtyear, Dee L. 
Walters, William C. 
Westwood, David H. 
Wyatt, Hershel 
Privates: 

Alderman, William A. 
Allen, Leslie E. 
Alley, Perry O. 
Bach, Henry 
Baley, Orbie L. 
Beavers, Lester F. 
Bell, Warren A. 
Bittle, Fred W. 
Byars, James T. 
Carter, Robert C. 
Cleveland, Willard 
Collins, James R. 
Cook, Earl H. 
Crocker, Carl 
Duncan, Frank 
Ellis, Gilbert 
Everett, Newell 
Farrow. George R. 
Farrow, Harvy 
Farrow, Jesse 
Ferril, Lloyd 
Fraas, Frank X. 
Fulton, Selmo 
Gibson, John W. Jr. 
Hall, Edward 



Haycraft, Emmett S. 
Hostuttler, John E. 
Huddleston, Joseph 
Hughes, Alfred W. 
Lamberton, James F. 
Lane, Lester A. 
Lasley, Frederick L. 
Lee, Elmore S. 
Love, Terrence N. 
McGinnis, Owen 
Mills, Harry H. 
Moore, John E. L. 
Nave, Thad 
Nokes, Eugene T. 
Owings, Ernest D. 
Owings, Walter H. 
Porter, Erman A. 
Rice, Chester A. 
Robey, William M. 
Rudd, Francis V. 
Ryan, Richard R. 
St. Clair, Joseph H. 
Sams, D. Milford 
Sanders, Otis 
Sappenfield, Felix G. 
Sheets, Earl A. 
Shepherd, Oscar 
Showers, John 
Slusher, Arnold F. 
Smith, Roy A. 
Sterritt, Anthony B. 
Stewart, John 
Swearingen, Zack 
Sweet, William H. 
Tousley, Melvin L. 
Truesdale, Hugh A. 
Ware, Clarence D. 
Wilkes, Robert L. 
Winton, George M. 
Winton, William C. 
Wood, Herman 
Wood, James L. 
Wood, Ralph 



Captain, 

Charles B. Allen 
1st Lieutenant, 

George M. Arrow- 
smith 
1st Lieutenant, 

Newell T. Paterson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Michael J. Flynn 
2d Lieutenant, 

Morris G. Riley 
1st Sergeant, 

Eggleston, Giles L. 
Supply Sergeants, 

Keenan, Leo P. 



BATTERY D 
EIansas City 

Stable Sergeant, 

Winners, Joseph A. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Entrekin, Lewis C. 
Duty Sergeants: 

Bell, Arthur H. 

Burkhardt, James A. 

Downey, Godfrey C. 

Junior, Fred E. 

McKim, Edward E. 

Miesburger, Edward 
P. 

Murphy, Thomas E. 

Taylor, Tom L. 

Wickline, Elmer E. 



Corporals: 

Brice, George E. 
Chaney, Verne E. 
Groff, Harry V. 
Hoffman, Frank J. 
Kelley, Harry M. 
McGowan, Francis 
Malmfeldt, Theodore 

Murphy, Harry E. 
O'Hare, William A. 
Rielly, Carl J. 
Rodgers, John G. 
Shaffer, Daniel L- 
Schmidt, Fred J. 
Schmidt, Ernest L. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Smith, Curtis C. 

Stanley, Frank 

Tierney, William F. 

Werner, Carl 

Wiedermann, Fred j. 
Chief Mechanic, 

Becker, Lawrence F. 
Mechanics: 

Wooden, McKinley 

Gladstone, Abraham 
M. 

Pratt, Harry G. 
Horseshoers: 

Edelman, Lawrence 
H. 

Quinn, Charles L. 
Cooks: 

Nix, Ddwin T. 

Blankemeier, Charles 
F. 

Jackson, Everett E. 
Buglers: 

Ridge, Albert A. 

Van Gilder, John W. 

West, Harold A. 

Jamison, Frank H. 
Privates: 

Baker, Roy 

Banning, Roland R. 

Baum, George R. 

Bollin, Frank J. 

Bonner, Patrick E. 

Brannon, Francis A. 

Bray, Lauren E. 

Breen, William J. 

Bryant, Mitchell 

Burdge, Charles L. 

Campbell, William B. 

Carnie, James M. 

Casey, James E. 

Casey, Patrick E. 

Coleman, Leo A. 

Conbly, Francis L. 

Condon, Edward V. 

Conway, James B. 

Coyle, Joseph F. 

Cunningham, Fred C. 

Curto, John P. 

Dabner, Harry J. 

Dantzig, Samuel 

Detling, Cleary M. 

Doherty, James J. 

Donnelly, Eugene P. 

Duren, Robert L. 



Evans, Milton R. 
Faulkner, Quincie J. 
Flaherty, Daniel L. 
Flint, Roy 

Fredericks, Aubrey L. 
Fredericks, Charley L. 
Gadwood, James W. 
Gent, Leo J. 
Gerye, James E. 
Gibbs, Chester 
Goosey, Orrie B. 
Gordon, John L. 
Grady, John J. 
Hall, John B. 
Hampton, Woodie L. 
Hardaway, Joseph B. 
Hardy, George A. 
Heillman, Lee A. 
Higginbotam, John J. 
Holmes, Mossie M. 
Hornaday, Ralph C. 
Horstman, Henry B. 
Howard, Frederick L. 
Hughes, Robert E. 
James, Charles R. 
Jeserich, Emil 
Joyce, Robert E. 
Kelley, Genaro 
King, Ray 
Knight, Winfrey E. 
Kunz, Frank J. 
LaMaster, Emmitt D. 
Lavery, Joseph L. 
Leeman, Earl 
Leibnitz, Paul W. 
Leigh, Vere C. 
Leming, Daniel B. 
Llafet, Jesse D. 
Logan, James P. 
Lucas, Lucien L- 
McCarty, Harry A. 
McCarty, William H. 
McClung, William W. 
McConnell, Harry T. 
McDonald, Fred H. 
McDonald, Thomas F. 
McNamara, James F. 
McNamara, Wm. T. 
Maloney, Timothy V. 
Maret, Charles B. 
Maxey, Barney 
Maynard, Jack W. 
Maynard, Russell 
Meiners, Herbert C. 



Meredith, William B. 
Merefee, Walter B. 
Miller, Harold 
Milton, Donald L. 
Moore, John E. 
Moore, Ralph W. 
Moore, William A. 
Mosby, Emerson A. 
Mutschler, Robert L. 
Nease, Hilbert R. 
Nuckles, Kent B. 
Oberndorff, August 
O'Hare, Thomas 
O'Rourke, Andy 
O'Sullivan, John A. 
Page, Clarence L. 
Parkin, Ralph J. 
Percintina, Roy 
Phillips, Lonnie 
Pierce, Lenord 
Riley, John H. 
Rogerson, William T. 
Sargert, Frank 
Schmitt, Edward H. 
Schweizer, William 

W. 
Seaman, Richard W. 

Jr. 
Seiben, Paul T. 
Sherman, Leon H. 
Sherlock, Joseph W. 
Smith, Chester 
Smith, Raymond 
Spiria, Frank E. 
Stewart, Ralph R. 
Stewart, Walter K. 
Stuart, Edward V. 
Surface, Elmer R. 
Tate, Raymond L. 
Trotter, Oliver L. 
Uncles, John J. 
A'an Buskirk, Earl 
Van Haversveke, Al- 

fons L. 
Wallegham, Joseph K. 
Walton, Tames T. 
Whited, Paul L. 
Wilkison, William J. 
Williams. Dwight L. 
Woods, George P. 
Woods, Glen B. 
Yeager, Francis D. 
Younkers, Frederick 

L. 



Captain, 

Spencer Salisbury 
1st Lieutenant, 

Ralph Crenshaw 
1st Lieutenant, 

Dexter S. Perry 



BATTERY E 

Independence 

2d Lieutenant, 
C. Wallace Kelly 

2d Lieutenant, 
Robert L. Phelps 

1st Sergeant, 

Lynch, Joseph H, 



Stable Sergeant, 
Cleveland, William 

Supply Sergeant, 
Sturges, Harry A. 

Mess Sergeant, 

Dunn, William C, Jr. 



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Sergeants: 

Carroll, Edwin S. 

Bowles, Vincent M. 

Soapes, Fred I,. 

Sollars, Eugene K. 

Van Smith, Herbert C. 

McCIure, Herbert C. 

O'Toole, Edwin V. 

Jefferies, Joseph L,. 

Mize, Charles R. 
Corporals: 

Bryan, Jean P. 

Humphrey, lyee M. 

Hymes, James E. 

Hardin, Elmer R. 

Kaplan, Max 

Knight, Rufus W. 

McRhae, Marion 

Miles, Arthur R. 

Wallace, Jefferson D. 

Jones, Roy H. 

Guard, Frank K. 

Stevens, William E. 

lyauderback, Frank D. 

Lewright, Harold L,. 

Stoneking, Clark 

Ragan, William E. 

Raymond, Harry 

Maret, Carl 

Davis, Tom 

Johnson, Roily 
Cooks: 

Smith, Zenas E. 

Wheeler, William O. 

Robinson, Joseph H. 
Chief Mechanic, 

Martinek, Harley h. 
Mechanics: 

Schlie, Arnold F, 

Wrzeciona, August A. 

Wrzeciona, Alphonso 
B. 

Horseshoers: 

Young, Joseph A. 
Conway, Orville 
Greer, William F. 

Saddler, 

Hammontree, Howard 
M. 

Buglers: 

Burdick, Ben 
Pemberton, Jeff D. 
Fleming, Earl M. 

1st Class Privates: 
Basham, Ernest 
Brizendine, Lanie 



Clasby, George 
Cook, Robert P. 
Crump, Howard M. 
Gard, George 
Gillispie, Clarence R. 
Hawkins, Gailyard 
Henson, Frenchie 
Huff, Grover A. 
Jefferies, Albert 
Kehoe, Martin B. 
Kinneman, Clarence E. 
Lasister, Waldon H. 
Lasley, Floyd 
Eutjen, Sam J. 
McGinty, Archibald 
Maness, Carl T. 
Moyer, Lester W. 
Myers, William H. 
Nazer, Ernest L. 
Perdue, Wallace 
Rice, Martin D. 
Radmall, Marian G. 
Raymond, Homer N. 
Reed, Earl 
Roof, Walter M. 
Sisco, Riley 
Sommers, George C. 
Souder, Elmer L. 
Strickler, Harry G. 
York, Buford I. 
Youngman, Bruce 
Privates: 

Armstrong, William J. 
Beason, Allen W. 
Beck, Lee 
Bell, Albert 
Bloom, John 
Bryant, Geo. S. 
Burgess, Stanley W, 
Bush, Jess J. 
Cameron, Wallace 
Campbell, Thos. A. 
Carlow, John F. 
Conolly, Charles C. 
Crawford, Melvin 
Banner, Homer 
Davis, Joseph 
Earle, Arnold 
Edwards, Claude 
Emory, Sam 
Fay, John J. 
Ferguson, Willard L. 
Fess, Earl F. 
Gingrich, William H. 
Gladish, Harry E. 
Glynn, Charles W. 
Gossett, Walter 



Hamby, George W. 
Harry, Clements M. 
Hillstade, Fred 
Hines, Fred M, 
Huber, George E. 
Hutchinson, John B. 
Ivy, Charles N. 
Jacobs, Russell C. 
Jenkins, Walton P. 
Johnson,Charles H. 
Johnson, James E. 
Jones, Joseph 
Kilgore, Jesse E. 
Klotz, Dewey 
Lacey, Thomas A. 
Lafferty, Gilbert D. 
Leahy, Daniel 
Lubert, William H. 
McDonald, Fred L. 
McPherson, Scott 
Moberly, Stanley F. 
Monroe, Robert L. 
Moss, Elmer L. 
Moss, Nesell 
Myers, Harry 
Nadow, Thomas L. 
Nichols, Charles A. 
Nixon, Harry M. 
Noakes, Elmer 
Noakes, Eugene 
Palmer, Albert O. 
Pemberton, Charles H, 
Perry, Leroy 
Prussing, Max M. 
Putcheski, John J. 
Raub, Paul M. 
Reed, Walter P. 
Reeves, Charles IT. 
Reynolds, Paul F. 
Rodgers, Claude 
Sprenkle, Samuel L. 
Stewart, Bryon E. 
Stewart, George 
Stinnet, Edward S. 
Sturges, Ralph A. 
Terrill, James S. 
Thompson, Vernon M. 
Toohey, Hollis 
Unkefer, Homer L. 
Wallace, Victor F. 
Walls, Russell A. 
Warner, William 
Watkins, John 
Welch, Harold W. 
Whitman, Leslie R. 
Wilhelm, Leslie D. 
Williams, Harry 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Captain, 

Harry B. Allen 
1st Lieutenant, 

Jay M. Lee 
1st Lieutenant, 

Harry S. Truman 
2d Lieutenant, 

Herbert J. Hale 
2d Lieutenant, 

Clyde C. Clark 
1st Sergeant, 

Dickinson, Cedric M. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Page, Florian S. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Moore, Charles F. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Springer, Paul M. 
Sergeants: 

Campbell, Bruce K. 

Hubler, Charles P. 

Duvall, Harold 

Thayer, Norton 

Moore, David N. 

Johnson, Harry W. 
Corporals: 

McCabe, George H. 

Schwartzberg, Harry 

Dowell, Ora A. 

Broaddus, John A. 

Buchannan, Grover C. 

Gableman, Fred Jr. 

Clegg, Arlington L. 

Haseman, Otto F. 

Blewetl, Ralph A. 

Snodgrass, Thomas F. 

Seifert, Frank L- 
Chief Mechanic, 

Wolfe, Charles W. 
Bugler, 

Brickley, John R. 
Privates: 

Allbee, Ernest R. 

Anderson, Earl M. 

Baldwin, Charles A. 

Barnes, Murle C. 

Barnett, Robert 

Bayer, Otto 

Beaven, Joseph A. 

Beck, Clyde O. 

Bell, John F. 

Bell, Thomas L. D. 

Benson, Ernest H. 

Berry, Francis 

Binkley, Otto 

Boner, Harry 

Bradshaw, James 

Brown, Robert Lee 

Caleb, Philip I. 

Card, Zera C. 



BATTERY F 

Kansas City 

Carder, Clem C. 
Carter, Cecil H. 
Chinn, Burton E. 
Cibula, Jake J. 
Clav, Louis M. 
Collins, Hubert C. 
Cronemeyer, Frede- 
rick E. 
Dabeane, Alois 
Denni, Harry 
Deschazer, Elmer S. 
De Talent, Lyxe E. 
Disselhoff, Willie 
Dooley, Edgar C. 
Dusky, Jack R. 
Earnhart, Harry I. 
Edwards, Fred J. 
Elliot, Joseph B, 
Emery, Herbert T. 
Farley, Neal H. 
Farris, Fred A. 
Faulkner, Eugene 
Fitzpatrick, Clement 
Ford, John R. 
Fulton, Edd 
Galle, Fred 
Gold, Louis 
Griffith, Rolland J. 
Hachinsky, Stanley M. 
Hackley, Porter L. 
Harding, Wili.'am V. 
Harland, Frank G. 
Harper, Charles E. 
Henderickson, Evar 
Henley, Michael A. 
Hibbert, Chester A. 
Hoflfman, Jake 
HoUman, John 
Housley, Gilbert O. 
Irish, Fred F. 
Jacobs, Eugene 
Jacobson, Edward 
Jarvis, Robert L. 
Jennings, Edwin S. 
Johnson, Adolph 
Jones, Wilbur M. 
Keith, Francis O. 
Kobs, Adolph J. 
Landman, Raymond H 
Lang, Fred M. 
Littler, Jesse C. 
Long, Ray E. 
Lucas, John I. 
McAllan, John F. 
McDowell, Landi? D. 
Mailen, James H. 
Mandl, Frank J. 
Mang, Carl C. 
Mattack, James F. 
Mikesell, Loy G. 



Milan, William E. 
Miller, Harry 
Miller, James B. 
Mohesky, Tony 
Moore, Hugh C. 
Morgan, Harold N. 
Murray, Benjamin R. 
Newall, James A. L. 
Occhipinto, Dominic 
Otis, Thomas A. 
Parker, Roy H. 
Phillips, Harvey C. 
Pryor, Roy E. 
Richeson, Louis H. 
Robinson, Earl 
Ruger, Fred J. 
Russell, Thomas H, 

Salloom, Philip 

Sanford, John R. 

Scott, Walter W. 

Shanklin, William N. 

Sickel, John 

Sidoreus, Hilon 

Smith, Elza C. 

Smith, Michael J. 

Springer, John T. 

Stearns, Morris L. 

Stone, Arthur L. 

Strode, John R. 

Sturdy, Orvis A. 

Stutenkemper, Her- 
bert F. 

Swartz, Milton E. 

Talbott, Jack 

Thiell, Rex F. 

Thomas, Donald R. 

Thopisen, Emil H. 

Toomey, Victor 

Trumbull, Ralph W. 

Ulrey, Ernest 

Ulrey, Henry L. 

Urick, Hoyt 

Van Luchene, Rene 

Wachtel, Siegmund 

Wagner, William L. 

Warren, Henry L. 

Warriner, Homer W. 

Watson, Leon 

Weber, Paul J. 

Wells, Guy O. 

White, Joe H. 

Wiggans, Roy W. 

Winfrey, Guy M. 

Williams, Starkey L. 

Wilson, Edmund W. 
Wilson, Elsworth W. 

Wood, Earl N. 

Wright, Chandler P. 

Wren, George 

Young, Eugene L. 

Zander, Paul D. 



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SANITARY DETACHMENT 

Kansas City 



Major, 

Charles E. Wilson 
1st Lieutenant, 

James T. Brown 
Veterinarians: 
2d Lieutenant, 

Timothy Riley 
2d Lieutenant, 

Carl Parker 



1st Sergeant, 
Falk, Harry S. 

Privates: 

Anthony, John B. 
Bohlken, Ed M. 
Cadman, Lester E- 
Coover, Clay C. 
Eckerle, Leo J. 



Hensley, Marshall A. 
Key, J. Glenn 
McKelly, Robert C. 
Merritt, John P. 
Pearson, Lavell D. 
Phillips, George K. 
Redding, James J. 
Thomson, Virgil G. 
Walker, Henry 



FIRST SEPARATE BATTALION ENGINEERS 



HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

Kansas City 



Major, 

Edward M. Stayton, 
Commanding 



Capt. & Adjt., 
Frank R. Jones 

Sergeant Major, 
Burgess, Elbert E. 



Master Engineers, J. G. 
King, Sherwood R. 
Kryder, Kenneth E. 
Sparr, Russell J. 



COMPANY A 
Kansas City 



Captain, 

Arly L. Hedrick 
1st Lieutenant, 

Bert R. Mullen 
1st Lieutenant, 

Frank E. Lewis 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Amos D. Johnson, Jr. 
Sergeants: 

Phillips, Loren D, 

Cloman, Frank W. 

Lasson, Joe R. 

Nash, Maurice E. 

Neil, Wallace M. 

Degen, Albert G. 
Privates: 

Abbandonato, Tony 

Adams, James F. 

Allen, Harry D. 

Armstrong, William 
W. 

Arnold, Frank A. 

Bailey, Robert P. 

Bartholomei, George 
D. 

Batliner, Aloysius R. 

Becker, Charles A. 

Beckett, William C. 

Belman, John A. 

Berlew, Gilbert G. 

Bolton, William M. 

Boyle, Robert W. 

Brooks, Benjamin F, 

Cantwell, James F. 



Carson, William G. 

Cashman, Hugh B. 

Child, Allen P. 

Cook, Ralph W. 

Curtis, George L. 

Douglas, William R. 

Duckworth, Albert 

Dwinnell, Paul F. 

Edwards, George A. 

Eisel, Lester F. 

Elkins, James R. 

Ernst, Arthur J. 

Filley, Ralph E. 

Floyd, Earl B. 

Fox, Albert L. 

Ford, Daniel J. 

Frederick, Will A. 

Friel, Joe J. 

Gabrielson, Arthur 

Ganzer, Ernest A. 

Gardner, James M. 

Greene, Frank M. 

Gundelfinger, Forrest 
C. 

Hagerty, John Her- 
bert, Jr. 

Hanson, Berger E. 

Hays. Louis R. 

Henderson, George P. 

Herndon. Roy B. 

Hicks, Willard W. 

Hoech, Howard H. 

Houk, William T. 

Huber, Scott F. 



Hymer, James A. 
Jones, William D. 
Kannally, Wm. P. 
Kelley, Edward L. 
Kemp, Ward C. 
Kimbrough, Roch L. 
Lord, James B. 
Ludwig, Henry J. 
Lute, Floyd A. 
McBride, Mead W. 
McConnell, Donald F. 
McCormack, Roger W. 
McFall, Daniel- L. 
McGinnis, Milton S. 
Magtutu, Pedro L- 
Messing, Benjamin R. 
Mowan, Howard F, 
Myers, Deo P. 
Newlund, Vern L. 
Nichols, Alex R. 
Occhipinti, Sebastain 
Palmer, Elmer L. 
Pearce, Richard 
Pearson, Clarence T. 
Phillips, Willie K. 
Portman, Harry 
Pottorflf, Fred C. 
Reynolds, Charles 
Reynolds, Joseph W. 
Richards, Samuel E. 
Rider, William G. 
Scharf, Charles R. 
Scharf, Henry W. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Schmeltz, Joe A. 
Schramm, Edward 

R. J. 
Schumacher, William 

H. 
Sewell, Quay Donald 
Simmons, Maurice 

M. 
Smith, Floyd E. 
Snyder, Walter C. 



St. Clair, Haston L. 
Steeber, William O. 
Steele, Ezekiel K. 
Stewart, Charles H. 
Tallquist, Harold A. 
Tillery, James W. 
Tommasini, Joseph 
Turpen, Oliver Phillip 
Veberg, Charles D. 
Vickers, Jas. M. 



Vogel, Edwin John 
Waters, Charles W. 
Watterson, Olgie 
White, Chester A. 
White, Edward Ever- 
ett 
Whitney, Edward Lee 
Williams, Thomas H. 
Wills, Arthur E. 
Wilson, Ernest D. 



Captain, 

Edward E. McKeighan 
1st Lieutenant, 

James A. Moore 
1st Lieutenant, 

Lawrence G. For- 
sythe 
2d Lieutenant, 

Roy C. Hedges 
1st Sergeant, 

Dunwoody, Charles 
G. 
1st Class Sergeant, 

Arnold, Gerald O. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Wiershing, Roy 
Supply Sergeant, 

Pypes, Columbus D, 
Stable Sergeant, 

Hogue, Clarence H. 
Sergeants : 

Spalding, Gilbert M. 

Chockley, Frederick 

Nielsen, Chris 

Lent, John R, 
Corporals : 

Laudermilk, Jerome D 

Pearson, Henry E. 

Perry, William H. 

Hodnett, Oscar M 

Hazlett, William S. 

Simms, Byron V. 

Rig'gs, John E. 

Bell, Thaddeus Henry 

Johnson, Iver K. 
Privates : 

Adams, Arthur 

Adams, William R. 

Allen, Bert S. 

Armstrong, George 
W. 

Borden, George A. 

Bryant, Emmett G. 

Bumps, John W. 



COMPANY B 

Kansas City 

Carey, Walter R. 
Carney, Rufe H. 
Childs, Edward B. 
Chinn, Charles 
Cordell, Carl L. 
Courts, Earl 
Crockett, Roy L. 
Dailey, Vincent 
Degen, Albert G. 
Dougherty, Ralph E. 
Douglass, Earl J. 
Duggins, Hubert 
Dunn, Virgil L. 
Evans, Francis E. 
Fenton, Jasper B. 
Flowers, Printes 
Fortune, Joseph 
Foster, Richard 
Geiger, Robert F. 
Gilmore, George F. 
Givens, William O. 
Golver, Ralph E. 
Gowan, William M. 
Green, Earl C. 
Groceman, William E. 
Hallam, Charles W. 
Haynis, John H. 
Hetherington, John V. 
Hirsh, Emil 
Hodel, William I. 
Ivan, Louis C. 
Jackson, Donald G. 
Johnston, Osby 
Kelley, David E. 
Krebs, Walter K. 
Lakey, Leonard A. 
Lapetina, Tony 
Lattner, Wendalyn 

H. 
McAshan, James E. 
McCandlish, Robert M 
McClaflin, Bert W. 
McNaught, William 

H. 
Madsen, Michael F. 
Magee, Will C. 
Mann, Orrin R. 



Mapted, Frederick 
Mercer, Emory 
Merrill, Starr S. 
Miller, Charles G. 
Miller, Lewis W. 
Miller, William E. 
Minshall, Wyatt 
Mitchell, Charles G. 
Mitts, Frank H. 
Morris, Walter L. 
Newby, Harry S. 
Odgaard, Henning P. 
Ogletree, William T. 
Page, William L. 
Peterson, Rector E. 
Pipes, Byron C. 
Pizinger, Chas. A. 
Prewett, Harry C. 
Remey, Thomas G. 
Rew, Frank W. 
Richmond, Chester L. 
Robinson, Edward E. 
Robinson, George H. 
Scott, Gerald 
Shelton, Wm. F. 
Shirkey, Charles M. 
Smith, WilHam I. 
Stoffle, Jewell J. 
Straw, James F. 
Supple, Patrick J. 
Thompson, Marion G. 
Todd, Joseph W. 
Tompkins, Harry M. 
Turner, Walter B. 
Tutt, Arthur C. 
Twin, Louis 
Valasz, Jose 
Veach, Bert W. 
Vincent, Eddie M. 
Walker, Barnett E. 
Wamsley, George J. 
Wilkinson, Gilbert M. 
Willis, Charles E. 
Wright, William S. 
Young, Bert 
Young, Ernest R. 
Zondler, Albert Chas. 



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Captain, 

Walter K. Palmer 
1st Lieutenant, 

Richard VV. Cunning- 
ham 
1st Lieutenant, 

Charles F. Curry 
2d Lieutenant, 

John K. Noonan 
1st Sergeant, 

Keifer, Joseph W. 
Sergeants : 

Withers, Clarence W. 

Nash, Harold 

Schneider, George A. 

Stone, Charles R. 

Campbell, Harry A. 
Corporals : 

Martin, Fred B. 

Cohn, Reuben R. 

Oetken, Walter 

Colvin, Charles 

Berger, Clyde D. 

Higdon, Allen B. 
Privates : 

Adams, James 

Adams, William 

Adler, Charles 

Allred, Kenneth L. 

Angel, Oscar L. 

Angel, William E. 

Baer, Fred C. 

Baker, Charles A. 

Baldwin, Paul R. 

Brandt, Ernest H. 

Braymer, George W. 

Braymer, Leslie L. 



COMPANY C 

Kansas City 

Bryant, Chauncey L. 
Bugbee, Harvey H. 
Burelli, Carmino 
Burns, Densil 
Campbell, Bertie J. 
Cashman, Patrick J. 
Clapper, Robert 
Collins, Whitman G. 
Cox, Charles B. 
Crow, Russell P. 
Elliott, Loren J. 
Flagg, Dalzey C. 
Fulkerson, Charles E. 
Golden, Arthur L. 
Hatton, Lester H. 
Herman, Fred 
Holton, John Henry 
Hostetter, Frank L. 
Hughes, Joseph N. 
Hughes, Thomas J. 
Jarrell, Earl 
Johnson, Frank 
Johnson, William W. 
Kinsey, Harry W. 
Lane, INIarquis M. 
Lawrence, Ewing M. 
Lee, Harley 
Legg, E. M. 
Leibourtz, Jacob 
Little, Russell 
McBee, Frank W. W. 
McCaleb, Flavius M. 
McCracken, Ronald E. 
McCormick, Walter 

H. 
McLaughlin, Patrick 
IMcWilliams, Harry 

Paul 
IMarcelly, Roxey J. 



]\Iay, Francis A. 
Meeks, Everett 
Meyers, Alfred L. 
Mitchell, Lige 
Moldovan, Nicholas 
Moore, James H. 
Niswander, William 

E. 
Olson, Harold 
Payne, Harold B. 
Petre, Joseph 
Reeves, John 
Regnier, Felix 
Remper, Earnest C. 
Rigg, Otto P. 
Riley, Earl L. 
Rohwer, William 
Skaggs, Ray 
Smith, Charles O. 
Smith, Emery J. 
Smith, Norman 
Staff, Ralph E. 
Sturtevant, Ira A. 
Sutherland, Lyle W. 
Sutton, Edward T. 
Sutton, Oscar O. 
Thomas, Arthur L. 
Thompson, George 
Turner, Allan F. 
Turner, Leland G. 
Turrentine, George 

S. 
Watts, Otis L. 
Wilhelm, Henry L. 
Williams, Claude 
Williams, Clyde 
Williams, Gordon 
Wilson. Edgar O. 
Wilt. Walter C. 



MOTOR SUPPLY TRAIN 



HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

St. Louis 



Major, Q. M. Sergeants: 

Carl O. Houseman, Hereford, James E. Jr. 

Commanding Page, James D. 

1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt., 1st Class Sergeant, 
Lawrence C. Sherrill Trayser, Lew 



1st Class Chauffeurs: 
Ruler, Orville V. 
Zirwes, Adolph 

Asst. Chauffeur, 
Walker, George E. 



TRUCK COMPANY NO. 1 
St. Louis 



1st Lieutenant, 

Horace B, Fitzwil- 
liam 



1st Class Sergeant, 
Truckmaster, 
McHugh, Darius M. 



Sergeants, Asst Truck- 
masters : 
Curran, Irvine F. 



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FROM VAUQU0I6 HILL TO EXERMONT 



Hays, William O. 

Hagerman, Harry A. 
Sergeant, Clerk, 

Young, Stephen B. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Lipschultz, Jack H. 
Sergeant, Mechanic, 

Finney, Joe C. 
Cooks: 

Morse, Reed P. 

Queensen, Arthur O. 
1st Class Chauffeurs: 

Armstrong, Ardra B. 

Baltz, George W. 

Barnhart, Francis L. 

Brashear, Harry J. 

Brock, Louis R. 

Connors, Albert J. 



Cox, Earnest Virgil 
Crouch, James Nick 
Daney, IJugene M. 
Earthall, Otto Arthur 
Famum, Albert J. 
Fisch, Raymond F. 
Plannery, Charles E. 
Gallagher, James J. 
Haeberle, Alois G. 
Henerforth, Charles 
Hoge, Oliver C. 
Kassing, Fred, Jr. 
Keaney, Joseph S. 
Kieran, John 
Lingle, Lester L. 
Prass, Hugo W. 
Ritchie, William J. 
Roehl, Otto J. 



Schwieder, Andrew D. 

Siedentop, William 

Simon, Bernard H. 

Simpson, Sidney E. 

Stupp, Walter E. 
1st Class Privates, Asst. 
Mechanics: 

Hahn, Howard F. 

Key, George A. 
Privates, Asst. Chauf- 
feurs : 

Allen, James W. 

Moore, Eugene W. 

Ostrander, James H. 

Owen, Archibald C. 

Pfiflfer, Stephen E. 

Portz, Walter J. 

Schworm, George 

Wagener, Abon E. 



TRUCK COMPANY NO. 2 
St. Louis 



1st Lieutenant, 

Charles J. McElhiney 
1st Class Sergeant, 
Truckmaster, 

Scott, George M. 
Sergeant, Clerk, 

Ashcroft, Jerome L. 
Sergeant, Asst. Truck- 
masters : 

Keyes, Arthur A. 

McCormack, Maurice 
A. 

Parker, King L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Roth, Paul A. 
Sergeant, Mechanic, 

Barrett, John B. 
Cooks : 

Doerr, Harry 

Wellman, Henry G. 
1st Class Chauffeurs: 

Bollwerk, John J. 

Buse, Edwin P. 



Canning, Robert J., 

Jr. 
Chandler, Leon H. 
ChorliTas, William A. 
Cobb, Virgil Guy 
Dietz, Benjamin G. 
Driemeyer, Fred A. 
Freeman, Thomas W. 
Greenwood, Daniel F. 
Grote, Edward H. 
Gunn, Howard P. 
Hoehn, George S. 
Jahns, Raymond J. 
Jehle, Charles, Jr. 
Johnston, William A. 
Kaler, Basil F. 
Kelley, James D. 
Kriejfer, Edward J. 
Kuechler, Edward G. 
London, Oscar G. 
Lynch, Joseph T. 
McFall, Edward L. 
Martin, John R. 



Moyers, Robert D. 

Nelson, Arthur A. 

Robertson, Lloyd J. 

Roetter, William W. 

Rombach, Emil F. 

Ronowsky, Frank 

Schindler, Edward F. 

Schutten, Melvin C. 

Shilling, Bernard J. 
Privates, 1st Class Asst. 
Mechanics : 

Hasekamp, Harry C. 

Joaquin, Nathan E. 
Privates, Asst. Chauf- 
feurs : 

Beeler, William B. 

Dahl, Vester 

Goetzhain, Oscar A. 

McCarthy, Walter 

McMillan, Louis A. 

Miehlhaures, Fred 

Spaulding, Michael H. 

Straub, Charles P. 



TRUCK COMPANY NO. 3 

St. Louis 



1st Lieutenant, 

Charles H. Wells 
1st Class Sergeant, 
Truckmaster, 

Arendes, Gustave M. 
Sergeant, Clerk, 

Bonnet, William 
Sergeant, Asst, Truck- 
masters : 

Grimes, Charles F. 

Harms, Erwin C. 

McKianey, James M. 



Mess Sergeant, 

O'Donnell, Edmund A. 
Sergeant, Mechanic, 

Atkinson, Robert J. 
Cooks : 

Feagan, Henry C. 

Zumbro, Edward E. 
1st Class Chauffeurs: 

Altmansberger, John 
F. 

Barrett, Harry J. 

Barry, William 



Cunningham, Frank 
Fly, Arthur M. 
French, Thomas H. P. 
Grieb, John O. 
Hardesty, Fred J. 
Hennessy, Stephen T. 
Hrdlicka, Joseph F. 
King, Wilson 
Kirkwood, Raymond 
Kirsch, George F. 
Krudup, Herman H., 
Jr. 



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363 



Ivightner, Edward 
lyockridge, Charles S. 
Long, Curtis 
May, Lawrence E. 
Quinn, Lon E. 
Reynolds, William B. 
Rogers, Willard S. 
Schlothauer, Henry 
Schwartz, Elmer J. 
Sheeks, John E. 
Sieving, Martin 



Smith, Walter M. 
Spangler, Harry E. 
Speier, Jerome 
Stuart, Allen P. 
Wallace, Herbert 
Waltman, John C. 
Ward, William J. 
Watson, Raymond L. 
Privates, 1st Class Asst. 
Mechanics : 
Hallback, Aaron P. 
Redden, Allen C. 



Privates, Asst. Chauf- 
feurs : 

Bergman, Frederick 
Blume, Elmer F. 
Fox, Dewey L. 
Gurley, Thomas E. 
Kelley, Charles R. 
Kemp, William J. 
Marshall, Murrell E. 
Rhoads, Harry G. 
Stern, Harry J. 



TEUCK COMPANY NO. 4 
St. Louis 



1st Lieutenant, 

George A. Griffith 
1st Class Sergeant, 
Truckmaster, 

Absolom, James H., Jr. 
Sergeant, Clerk, 

Steding, Harry M. 
Sergeants, Asst. Truck- 
masters : 

Hutchison, James A. 

Gegenbauer, Joseph 
A. 

Vance, Chester A, 
Mess Sergeant, 

Steding, John A. 
Sergeant, Mechanic, 

Anderson, William R. 
Cooks : 

Pace, Charles 

Alt, Albert J. 
1st Class Chauffeurs: 

Anderson, James C. 



Bakula, Edward 
Bankson, Randolph T. 
Bess, Eugene 
Bisgen, Joseph A. 
Burks, Walter L. 
Cowdery, Archie 
Coultas, Wilson J. 
Day, Raymond J. 
Dinkle, Joseph A. 
Dixon, Raymond G. 
Files, Wilbur R. 
Frank, Joseph, Jr. 
Gillham, Willard C. 
Gokenbach, Walter P. 
Hamilton, Albert D. 
Kester, Joseph R., Jr. 
Lawrence, Boyd E. 
Marquitz, Oliver C. 
Martin, Carl W. 
Rafferty, Gerard A. 
Reed, Eugene B. 
Reis, O. Louis 
Richardson, Irvin L. 
Rebley, Lester C. 



Rossman, Edwin F. 

Ruschenberg, Oliver 

Schmidt, Charles 

Schnaus, John F. 

Spies, Clarence 

Votova, John 

Wiedmer, William F. 

Williams, Phillip A. 
Privates, 1st Class, 
Mechanics : 

Byrne, Frank P. 

Thompson, Roy M. 
Privates, Asst. Chauf- 
feurs: 

Jaeckel, Frederick W, 

Kolwyck, Richard P. 

McGill, John T. 

Mathewson, Warren 
H. 

Morrell, Jesse R. 

Moss, Daniel 

Rausendorf, August 
H. 

Walsh, Frank J. 



1st Lieutenant, 

James A. Wright 
1st Class Sergeant, 
Truckmaster, 

Ketchel, Leon J. 
Sergeant, Clerk, 

Morgan, Lindsay A. 
Sergeant, Asst. Truck- 
masters : 

Dugan, Edward M. 

McHugh, Jerome L. 

Tharp, Lon O. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Greer, Henry P. 
Sergeant, Mechanic, 

Mundell, Ralph E. 



TEUCK COMPANY NO. 5 

Springfield 

Cooks : 

Weaver, Ernest H. 

Morey, Cyril M. 
1st Class Chauffeurs: 

Arnold, Edwin E. 

Beidenlinden, William 
A. 

Carter, Otis W. 

Council, Alexander C. 

Crouch, William M. 

Fearl, Robert C. 

FowlcT, Harry P. 

Hastings, William O. 

Johnson, William A. 

Kintrea, Edwin R. 

Kirkey, Clarence W. 

Klosson, Helmer C. 



Miller, Paul 
Morgan, Jesse O. 
Palmer, Charles C. 
Patterson, Leslie 
Pierce, Abial R. 
Pilkinton, William H. 
Roberts, John P. 
Shadburn, Thomas P. 
Shannahan, Eugene 

W. 
Shockley, Richard S. 
Shavely, Ralph H. 
Spencer, Bonnie 
Stine, William K. 
Stolp, Elmer S . 
Thomas, Elmer V. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Thompson, Charles N. 
Tisdell, Lee 'B;. 
Turner, William E. 
Walker, John D. 
Whittington, Ralph M. 
Privates, 1st Class Asst. 
Mechanics : 



Clark, John E. 
Workman, Ross, Jr. 
Privates, Asst., Chauf- 
feurs : 
Blanchette, Lawrence 
Dickinson, Llewellyn 



Emery, Claude S. 
Hamel, Joshua W. 
Malone, Leonard B. 
Murphy, Robert A. 
Voris, Green H. 
Young, Ernest J. 



TEUCK COMPANY NO. 6 

St. Joseph 



1st Lieutenant, 

Max P. Habecker 
1st Class Sergeant, 
Truckmaster, 

Vinburg, Anthony F. 
Sergeant, Clerk, 

Marcell, Albert 
Sergeant, Asst. Truck- 
masters: 

Hedges, Harry G. 

Knudson, Charles G. 

Sherwood, Joseph 
Mess Sergeant, 

Hopkins, Robert T. 
Sergeant, Mechanic, 

Fishel, Melzer W. 
Cooks : 

Banes, Arthur 

Lee, Fred 
1st Class Chauffeurs: 

Allen, Howard K. 

Bova, William 



Bower, Carl 
Brown, William G. 
Casey, Edward P, 
Castle, Minor 
Castle, Orie E. 
Courtney, James M. 
Drummond, William 

L. 
Farris, Herbert G. 
Garrod, Robert O. 
Hanke, Henry J. 
Hanke, Paul J. 
Herndon, Ray C. 
Hinde, Thomas I\L 
Irsik, Leo M. 
Jackson, Howard 
Jager, Clarence J. 
Koch, Charles R. 
McKinney, Albert M. 
Madinger, Otto 
Muster, John 
Ogden, Clyde W. 
Reury, Fred 



Schmitt, Frank O. 

Starmer, Bringle W. 

Steidel, Harry J. 

Stueck, Herman C. 

Tooey, Robert B. 

Walters, Vailey M. 

Wiehl, Gerard 

Wiley, Beuford J. 

Worland, John 
Privates, 1st Class Asst. 
Mechanics: 

Beihl, Louis, Jr. 

Hemenover, Cort H. 
Privates, Asst. Chauf- 
feurs : 

ElHott, Joseph F. 

Harmon, Jesse M. 

Hudson, Haden S. 

McCoy, Albert A. 

Madden, Johnny 

Russell, Earl R. 

Schaff, Charles F. 

Tays, Wilbur 



1ST SEPARATE TROOP, MrSSOURI CAVALRY 
St. Louis 



Captain, 

Edward J. Ruf, 

Commanding 
1st Lieutenant, 

John A. Hatfield 
2d Lieutenant, 

William C. McCarron 
1st Sergeant, 

Smith, Ruskin A. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Williams, Edwin C. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Guyot, Charles A. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Ross, Edward B. 
Sergeants : 

Tranel, Anthony H. 

Schenk, George E. 

McCormick, William 
F. 

Patterson, Coombs 

Hamma, Carl A. 

Feiner, Geo. W. 



Corporals: 

WiUiams, Victor E. 

Huff, Hugo F. 

Sain, Frank J. 

Kamm, Carl B. 

James, Kessler 

Espy, Albert L. 

Chauvin, Charles B. 

Young, William C. 

Pollard, Geo. H. 
Horseshoers : 

Dunlap, Orlie 

Anderson, Arthur C. 
Buglers: 

Moore, Silas S. 

Newman, Arthur E. 
Cook, 

Ehrman, Karl 
1st Class Privates: 

Brown, Hayward 

Burnley, Boniface J. 

Desmond, Elmer H. 

Kretzer, John F. 



Linton, Melville L. 
Palphrey, William G. 
Rodgers, Milton 
Teason, Clifford J. 
Ulrich, Elmer L. 
Woodard, James E. 
Privates : 
Axtell, Hall 
Beal, Bruce A. 
Bebee, Joseph A. 
Becker, Howard R. 
Bell, John H., Jr. 
Bockhurst, Charles 

W. 
Bradshaw, Erwin J. 
Brewster, Harry E. 
Cantwell, Harry J., 

Jr. 
Cardwell, Elmer F. 
Carter, Robert L. 
Cooley, Charles F., Jr. 
Dickey, Clifford E. 
Donnel, Everett M. 



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365 



E)dmondson, lyConard 

K. 
E)hrman, Karl 
Ellison, Augustus B. 
Fowler, Alonzo F. 
French, Schuyler S. 
Gautier, Pierre T. 
Giblin, Fdward J. 
Goeble, Frederick J. 
Hancock, Lesleigh 
Hancock, Murray J. 
Howe, Neal A. 
Huck, L,ouis A. 
Jackson, Herbert M. 
Jeffers, Jack A. 
Jeffries, Charles R. 
Jordan, Davis I. 
Junge, Frederick A. 
Kretzer, Flmer L. 



L,anigan, Earl M. 
L,iess, Daniel R. 
McCann, Edward J. 
Montfort, Earl D. 
Morgan, John A. 
Murphy, Melvin J. 
Nathan, Frank E. 
Newman, George W 
Nies, Frederick J. 
Noonan, Allan S. 
Overman, John R. 
Parker, Robert B. 
Parker, Thomas 
Penning, Carl A. 
Prendergast, George 

E. 
Rapp, Arthur G. 
Rodgers, Atwell 



Schoen, Carl H. 
Selkirk, Benjamin J. 
Sennewald, Ferdinand 

W. 
Sindel, Thomas F. 
Smith, David J. 
Speed, L,loyd J. 
Spencer, Charles S. 
Stone, J. Boyd 
Sullivan, Richard W. 
Tivy, John B. 
Uehlie, Walter E. 
Van der lyippe, Paul 

F. 
Vetter, John E. 
Walker, George B. 
Wall, George C. 
Watson, Melvin G. 
Wootten, Rieff 



FIRST MISSOURI FIELD HOSPITAL 



Major, 

Oliver C. Gebhart 
Captain, 

Thomas J. Lynch 
1st Lieutenant, 

Charles Greenberg 
1st Lieutenant, 

Robert E. Crabtree 
1st Lieutenant, 

Otto A. Schmid 
1st Class Sergeants, 

Dorsey, Robert M. 

Dorsey, Stephen A. 

King, Cortez, E- 
Sergeants: 

McDaniel, James E. 

Classen, Edwin J. 

Carter, John M. 

Daggett, Boone L. 

McAleer, Hugh D. 
Cooks : 

Hinckley, Irving M. 

Septka, Harold F. 
1st Class Privates: 

Alsfasser, Mathias 

Baertels, Gerhard J. 

Bassing, Francis J. 

Bauerlein, James G. 

Betts, Thomas R. 

Bolton, Alexander J. 

Boyle, Clifford S. 

Boyle, Wave P. 



St. Joseph 

Bramel, Glenn C. 
Brooks, Louis V. 
Burvenich, Oscar A. 
Dornhoffer, Louis J. 
Ehler, William R. 
Gardner, Robert L. 
Hadley, Leslie F. 
Hanavan, Charles T. 
Hatch, Pearne P. 
Hutton, Carl S. 
Kimber, Harry E. 
King, Sabe 
Kuehn, Curt E. 
Optican, Abe G. 
Palmer, Virgil B. 
Policy, Albert D. 
Pursel, Dean C. 
Randall, Adolph L. 
Retzer, Edgar F. 
Shaw, Robert L. 
Showers, George F. 
Shubert, John J. 
Slaybaugh, John B. 
Whitehead, Edward 
A. 
Privates : 

Adams, Charles M. 
Binnicker, Ray E. 
Binnicker, Walter A. 
Black, William H. 
Borden, Duncan 
Butler, Ralph M. 
Cardry, William R. 



Carter, Perry W. 
Cole, Lawrence V. 
Collins, Ernest B, 
Compton, Earl B. 
Conard, Raymond 
Consodine, Thomas J. 
Doherty, Charles G. 
Fisher, Robert H. 
Foster, Thomas W. 
Garlich, Emil J. 
Garvey, Lawrence J. 
Grieshaber, Rudolph 

C. 
Henry, Charles L- 
Hinckley, Warren H. 
Houck, William E., 

Jr. 
Howard, Frederick E. 
Hurst, Norman W. 
Jones, Henry M. 
Kier, Thomas B. 
Logan, Cecil E. 
Lowry, Merle A. 
McDonald, Leo F. 
Moeck, John B. 
Sellers, Eugene H. 
Shafer, Harry C. 
Sherman, Arthur F. 
Showers, William B. 
Smith, Frank R. 
Throckmorton, Harry 
Wilson, John W., Jr. 
Windsor, Frederick T. 



SECOND MISSOURI FIELD HOSPITAL 

Chamois 



Major, 

William W. Gilbert 



1st Lieutenant, 
Hans Schaerrer 



1st Lieutenant, 
Isaac G. Cook 



366 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



1st Lieutenant, 

Henry L. Rothman 
1st Lieutenant, 

Cyrus P. McRaven 
1st Sergeant, 

Pahmeier, Robert IL 
Supply Sergeant, 

Stomer, Ralph D. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Parks, Cecil R. 
Sergeants : 

Meyer, Bernard C. 

Ehler, Otto 

Lindhorst, Loyd G. 

McDaniel, Buell W. 
Corporals : 

Kahmann, Ray 

Spreckelmeyer, Ches- 
ter O. 

Odor, Carlyle K. 
Cooks : 

Dessieux, Paul Berry 

Roberts, Luther 

Rinne, George H. 
Horseshoer, 

Malan, Cyrus C. 
Saddler, 

McDaniel, Ray B. 
Farrier, 

Brandt, Irving A. 



Mechanic, 

Walker, Major R. 
Trumpeters: 

Lecurn, Hugo Hubert 

Griffith, Harry E. 
Privates: 

Baclesse, Louis A. 

Baclesse, Guffrie K. 

Baker, Joseph D. 

Bascom, Harold C. 

Boyce, Boyd R. 

Boss, Emil P. 

Branson, Lewis 

Branson, Tim 

Branson, William 

Carnes, Stanley R. 

Childers, Elmer 

Clark, Irvie L. 

Clover, George A. 

Cramer, Buell B. 

Curtit, William C. 

Deakins, William B. 

Ferguson, William A. 

Glavin, Thomas E. 

Haynes, Floyd E. 

Hesch, Walter P. 

Hug, Paul Walter 

Kampschweder, Harry 
M. 

Kleithermes, Joseph 
H. 

Lalk, Oscar B. 



Lannon, Harry J. 
Leonard, William 
McDaniel, Charles L- 
McKnight, James T. 
Maxwell, Ezra T. 
Miller, William L. 
Neumann, Arthur M. 
Nichols, John S. 
O'Brien, David W. 
Patterson, Edward L. 
Patterson, Marvin 
Potter, Stanley C. 
Renfro, Gus Haskell 
Renfro, William J. 
Rhodes, Lawrence 
Roark, James Way- 
man 
Rogers, Den H. 
Rogers, Marvin 
Rother, William 
Sask, Otto Fritz 
Smith, William E. 
Stiers, Adolph 
Thompson, William 

E. 
Thulis, Werner J. 
Turner, John Dewey 
Vaughan, Guy 
Vehlewald, John L. 
White, Elmer 
Wright, Rudolph 
Zewicki, Augusta W. 



FIRST MISSOURI AMBULANCE COMPANY 

Kansas City 



Captain, 

William L. Gist 
Captain, 

Frank Hvirwitt 
1st Lieutenant, 

Dorriss E. Wilhelm 
1st Lieutenant, 

Halsey M. Lyle 
1st Lieutenant, 

Raymond H. Fox 
1st Lieutenant, 

John F. Howell 
1st Lieutenant, 

Joseph M. Hancock 
1st Class Sergeants: 

Zillisch, Hubert E. 

Quinn, Theophilus J. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Wilson, William H. 
Sergeants: 

Rohr, Jake P. 

Mason, Lyman 

Evans, Henry L. 

Hansen, Carl T. 

Sarrisin, Cheri 



Corporals : 

Nicholson, Claud 

Nicholson, Vivian 

Casper, Clyde 

Orvis, Harold W. 

Rauter, Ballington A. 
Cooks : 

Staley, George P. 

Shinkle, Osa L. 

Yoder, Charles A. 
Horseshoer, 

Peterson, William A. 
Farrier, 

Hare, Frank 
Mechanic, 

Hill, Samuel J. 

Saddler, 

Carbin, Dennis 
1st Class Privates: 

Arbuckle, William C. 

Ausman, Roy E. 

Bird, Edward H. 

Boyer, Guy M. 

Browne, Arthur O. 

Coltrane, Ockley 

Crangle, Herbert C. 



Ewing, William J. 
Finster, Carl G. 
Gibson, Kenneth 
Gilzean, John F. 
Hatch, George E. 
Hillgardner, Harold 

K. 
Hofifman, John 
Hofmann, Alfonso 
Huber, Louis A. 
Irwin, Donald G. 
Johnston, Fred 
Johnstone, Newman E. 
Love, Edgar 
McMullen, Frank D. 
Meyer, Carl A. 
Miles, Robert R. 
Nelson, Emel 
Perrin, Guy M. 
Polk, Orrin L. 
Pubanz, Ernest A. 
Shema, George W. 
Shepp, John H. 
Skaer, Carl 
Towner, Floyd P. 
Vinick, Sam 



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367 



Weaver, Charles A. 
Welch, Charles A. 
Wherritt, Albert R. 
Williams, Richard C. 
Privates : 

Arnold, Mason 
Asotsky, Louis J. 
Bennett, Ellis S. ^ 
Biddison, Lewis C. 
Biddison, Roy C. 
Brand, Amos R. 
Brown, Carl C. 
Brune, Gustave H. 
Bryson, Arthur R. 
Bundren, Isaac M. 
Burress, Clifford D. 
Bussey, Melville G. 
Buttomer, Joseph C. 
Collins, Joseph P. 
Cordes, Henry C. 
Crane, Garnett E. 
Crevier, Edgar F. 
Damron, Andrew J. 
Dishman, George B. 
Ellmaker, Claud D. 
Evans, Lenly C. 
Fisher, Roy E. 
Fox, Vernon F. 
Gillis, Charles M. 
Glazier, Glenn O. 
Golden, Melvin 
Gordon, Abe 
Green, Joseph A. 
Hackler, Harvey H. 



Houston, Sid 
Irons, Parker R. 
Kella, Harry Y. 
Kerst, Mark A. 
Knuth, William J. 
Laboy, Samuel 
Lewis, Charles A. 
Lewkowitz, Leopold 
Lincoln, Lewis D. 
Liter, Omer M. 
McClean, Steele C. 
McCormick, Leonard 

R. 
McLaughlin, John J. 
Martin, Joseph F. 
Miller, IMonroe P. 
Moore, Cassius A. 
Moore, Clifford 
Mullen, Dudley A. 
Mundie, Thomas I. 
Murphy, Edward E. 
O'Connell, William J. 
Peterson, Harvey E. 
Poindexter, Claude F. 
Quinn, William N. 
Rautert, Harold H. 
Reed, Charles H. 
Reeder, Vernon C. 
Reid, Truman V. 
Rickert, Leonard A. 
Rincker, William 
Ritchey, Wilber 
Robards, George N. 
Rogers, Ray H. 
Rolfers, Frederick E. 



Rope, Harry L. 
Rosenberg, Herman P. 
Ross, George L. 
Rucker, Eli F. 
Rucker, William L- 
Rutledge, John D. 
Samide, William J. 
Sharp, Arthur 
Shipley, Dwight A. 
Simms, Harry E. 
Siney, Ralph T. 
Smith, Earl C. 
Steinert, Perry L. 
Stettler, Jesse E. 
Stevenson, Homer B. 
Stevenson, Ross J. 
Strain, Robert L. 
Teepen, Joseph B. 
Thompson, Walter F. 
Van Gorden, Everett 

H. 
West, Rogers C. 
Whiles, James B. 
Williams, Henry M. 

No. 1. 
Williams, Henry M. 

No. 2. 
Withers, Frank 
Wolf, Robert C. 
Woolery, Clyde F. 
Woolverton, Robley 

C. 
Worthington, Lewis 

A. 
Zing, Henry F. 



SECOND MISSOURI AMBULANCE COMPANY 



Captain, 

Tom R. Gammage 
1st Lieutenant, 

Charles T. Border 
1st Lieutenant, 

Knowles K. Carr 
1st Lieutenant, 

Richard P. Lewis 
1st Lieutenant, 

Joseph C. Jones 
1st Class Sergeants, 

Ramsey, William H. 

Boyd, William 
Corporals: 

Wood, John K. 

Stutsman, David B. 

Bleimes, George R. 

Dennis, Lawrence B. 

Spalding, Leo A. 

Tower, Paul A. 

Ballew, Neual Wes- 
ley 

Mason, William S. 



Kansas City 

Privates : 

Andrews, William 
Argo, Edgar 
Bagby, David 
Bargefrede, Herman 
Bennett, Forest L. 
Bongiavannia, Antonia 
Bowan, Ralph E. 
Byron, Charles B. 
Carter, Frank 
Casanovia, Frank 
Childers, Fred S. 
Clark, Albert C. 
Clossen, Eugene E. 
Cordes, Carl J. 
Cox, Joe Lr. 
Cutler, Clyde 
Dawson, John T. 
Diehl, Joe J. 
Dohrer, Emil W, 
Doohan, John M. 
Dooley, Jewell E- 
Dwyer, Frank R. 



Echols, Leslie 

Falcone, Jasper 

Ferguson, Albert R. 

Flaherty, James H. 

Foust, Wilburn 

Gardner, Stroriher H. 

Genova, Frank 

Gove, William F. 

Gray, George Raly 

Gray, William Clin- 
ton 

Halperin, George 

Halpin, Joseph G. 

Hansen, Oluf R. 

Harger, C. Guinn 

Harris, Elmer J. 

Harvey, Clarence O. 

Haulk, Albert E. 

Hedderman, James M. 

Heddennan, William 
P. 

Hessler, Harvey 

Higdon, Odell W. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Highley, James R. 
Hyvonian, Herman 
Innman, Charles 
Jeflfries, Russel B. 
Johnston, Clarence 

F. 
Johnson, Wayne H. 
Kanatzar, Herman 
Keil, Fred J. 
Kennedy, John W. 
Keys, Tohn Lloyd 
Keys, John W. 
Kinkaid, LeRoy 
Kunkel, lyawrence W. 
Ivoftus, George A. 
McChntock, Theodore 

K. 
McCool, William P. 
McCracken, Frank F. 



McFlvain, William A. 
McGarter, Oliver W. 
AIcKissock, Samuel 

A. 
Matthews, Don H. 
Miller, Dewey 
Moore, William R. 
Mulcay, William C. 
Muskrat, Harvey R. 
O'Brian, Richard J. 
Palmersenia, John 
Parsons, Herbert L. 
Phemister, Art 
Rainey, Walter F. 
Rains, Elmer 
Reese, Claude A. 
Rich, Fdgar H. 
Ritterhoff, Stanley W. 
Rivers, John F. 



Rosebrough, Charles 
Roth, Charles A. 
Russell, Undril U. 
Sansone, Anthony 
Seaman, Fred H. 
Siegrist, Henry H. 
Slabocsky, Joe 
Smith, Jennings B. 
Smith, Lloyd C. 
Stagg, George A. 
Stimmell, Mariam 
Stroud, Robert 
Thompson, Harry W. 
Vansandt, Flzy 
Vansandt, Lorenzo 
Walsh, Roy S. 
Weber, Harold F. 
Wholey, Andy J. 
Wilcox, Clarence C. 



QUARTERMASTER'S CORPS DETACHMENT 



1st Class Sergeant, 
Powers, Frank A. 

1st Class Private, 
Walker, John A. 



Privates: 

Brown, Paul M. 
Duke, James A. 
Hupp, George H. 
Ison, Oren C. 



Jackson, Seba W. 
Kinney, William F. 
Moudy, Alfred W. 
Wayland, Ashby G. 
Wilson, Chester A. 



ROSTER 

OF THE 

NATIONAL GUARD OF KANSAS 



This roster of the Kansas National Guard is official as to all officers, or- 
ganizations and men at midnight of August 4, 1917, immediately before mob- 
ilization of the guard under proclamation of the President of the United 
States. These are the guardsmen with the ranks they held when they were 
inducted into the Federal service. The Ammunition Train became part of 
the 42d (Rainbow) Division. 



370 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 



HEADQUAETERS 

TOPEKA 

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF 

Arthur Capper 

Governor 

THE ADJUTANT GENERAL 

Brigadier General Charles I. Martin 

OFFICERS OF THE REGULAR ARMY ON DUTY 

Major, 

Alvarado M. Fuller 

STAFF CORPS AND DEPARTMENTS 
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT 



Major, 

Clad Hamilton 



Major, 

Harry W. Shideler 



INSPECTOR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT 

Major, 

Dennis J. Sheedy 

JUDGE-ADVOCATE GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT 

Major, 

William J. Watson 



QUARTERMASTER CORPS 



Major, 

R. Neill Rahn 
Major, 

J&rry C. Springstead 



Majors: 

Henry T. Salisbury 
Carl Phillips 
Seth A. Hammel 
Henry D. Smith 
Charles S. Evans 
Emanuel N. Martin 
Charles W. Jones 

Captains: 

Ira E. Durant 
Charles M. Siever 

•1st Lieutenants: 
Joseph S. Alford 
Claude C. Lull 



Captain, 

Joy S. Sanders 

MEDICAL CORPS 

Edwin R. Tenney 
Charles C. Hawke 
Merrill K. Lindsay 
Henry S. Rogers 
Dana O. Jackson 
Harold H. Jones 
Ralph E. Barnes 
William L. Rhodes 
Clark W. Mangun 
Tiberius L. Jones 
Herbert M. Webb 
John F. Coffman, Jr. 
John C. Cornell 
Richard T. Speck 



Captain, 

Carl R. White 
Captain, 

Raymond F. Montgom- 
ery 



Adam H. Adamson 
Alpheus J. Bondurant 
Frank C. Boggs 
Harold M. Glover 
Ralph C. Hartman 
Charles C. Bennett 
James G. Rea 
Melvin C. Martin 
A. Eugene Harrison 
Walter H. Kirkpatrick 
Samuel E. Simpson 
Charles L. Mosley 
Cecil E. Tolle 
Joseph C. Bunten 
Samuel M, Hibbard 



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1st Lieutenants: 
Walter W. Harrell 
Walter W. Hunt 



1st Lieutenants: 
Homer K. Wark 



DENTAL SECTION 

Roy H. Heil 
Frank C. Cady 
Heyl B. Smith 

VETERINARIANS 

2d Lieutenants: 

Clarence L. Young 
Leslie E. Rowles 

CHAPLAINS 

Myron S. Collins 
Evan A. Edwards 



Forest E. Kutz 
Arthur J. Buff 
Karl E. Osborn 



Earl A. Blackburn 



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FIRST KANSAS INFANTRY BRIGADE 

HEADQUARTERS 

TOPEKA 

Brigadier General, 
Charles I. Martin, 

Commanding- 

PERSONAL STAFF 

Major, 

Clad Hamilton 

Adjutant 



AIDES-DE-CAMP 

1st Lieutenant, 

Leo A. Mingenback 
Infantry 



1st Lieutenant, 
Burton E). Fox 

Infantry 



BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS 



Sgt. Mjr. Brig. Hdq., 

Lawrence, Virgil J. 
Sergeant, 

White, Raymond M. 
Wagoners : 

Nevill, Clarence R. 

Skillin, Hance B. 



1st Class Privates: 
Brown, William A. 
Carroll, Alfred E. 
Crawford, Geo. M., Jr. 
Longenecker, Donald 
D. 



Mays, Marshall I. 
Reed, Willis C. 
Ridlon, Owen A. 
Stratemeyer, Lewis O. 
Waldo, Guy L. 
Zercher, Joseph K. 



TROOPS 
First, Second and Third Regiments of Infantry 



FIRST REGIMENT, KANSAS INFANTRY 

HEADQUARTERS 

Lawrence 



Colonel, 

Wilder S. Metcalf 
Lieutenant-Colonel, 

Charles S. Flanders 
Major, 

Frank W. Butler 



FIELD AND STAFF 

Major, 

Aaron L. Hitchens 
Maj or, 

Samuel G. Clark 
1st Lieutenant, 

Elvan A. Edwards 



1st Lieutenant, 

William L. Stryker 
1st Lieutenant, 

Miles F. Canty 
1st Lieutenant, 

John A. Ashworth 



HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

Lawrence 



Captain, 

Joseph W. Murray 
Rgt. Sgt. Mjr., 

Studer, William J. 
Bn. Sgt. Mjrs. : 

Hanson, Harry W. 

Bryan, Ora E. 

Gillette, Harold R. 



Color Sergeant, 

Wenger, Joseph S. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Galloway, Percy L. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Lesuer, Nelson M. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Dickerson, Harlan L. 



Sergeant, 

Hill, Ormond P. 
Cooks: 

Lupher, David W. 

Reedy, Howard L. 
Band Leader, 

Rigdon, Walter 



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Asst. Band Leader, 

Reiser, Bernhardt A. 
Sergeant Bugler 

Domingo, Faustino J. 
Band Sergeant, 

Crowder, Frank T. 
Band Corporals: 

Riggs, Charles N, 

Shearer, Beryl L. 

Williams, Charles 
1st Class Musicians: 

Birch, Albert E. 

Kalama, Francis J. 
2d Class Musicians: 

Madrid, Savannah 

Mcllhenny, Robert C. 
3d Class Musicians: 

Barndt, Clarence L. 



Bayles, Charles G. 
Belden, Theodore 
Berridge, Guy H. 
Block, Clarence I. 
Clements, Luther G. 
Davis, Oren T. 
Deon, Louis A. 
Graham, Roy W. 
Kirk, A. Tom 
Peterson, Fritz F. 
Powell, Verne C. 
Ramsey, Charles L. 
Saunders, Gordon 
Tanner, Allen O, 
Tester, Clifford L. 
1st Class Privates: 
Angevine, Montfort E. 
Cohn, Byron S. 



Hill, Alfred G. 
Sanger, Clarence A. 
Privates: 

Anderson, Arthur S. 
Benedict, Fred R. 
Bouton, Archie F. 
Brown, Max L. 
Burger, Harry L. 
Courtney, William E. 
Haskin? George 
Hess, Walter vV. 
Jones, Frederick G. 
Lawrence, Arthur 
McCurdy, Henry B. 
Neville, Kenneth L. 
Roads, Ray V. 
Rohrer, William 
Smith, Guido E. 



MACHINE GUN COMPANY 



Captain, 

Frank D. Mathias 
1st Lieutenant, 

Hawley H. Braucher 
2d Lieutenants: 

Thomas F. Moor 

Ray M. McClaran 
1st Sergeant, 

Goble, Lester E. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Braden, Fred W. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Capelin, Perry A. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Hinkle, Byron L. 
Horseshoer, 

Lambeth, Hugh W. 
Sergeants: 

Works, Warren W. 

McGannon, Michael L. 

Lieurance, Ray R. 

Solley, William H. 

Doty, Algy 

Armsby, Horace H. 
Corporals: 

Johnson, James L. 

Lieurance, Delbert R. 

Noyes, Melvin F. 

Williams, Edwin H. 

Willhite, Riley E. 

Johnson, William M. 

Hottenstein, Fred J. 



Humboldt 

Mechanics: 

Willhite, James B. W. 
Cook: 

Sibert, Frank S. 
1st Class Privates: 

Ashbrook, Lindsay W. 

Alexander, Colin H, 

Barrackman, William 
J. 

Goble, Lawrence S. 

Poore, Ezra W. 

Porter, Charles E. 
Privates : 

Adams, Raymond D. 

Bayer, Clarence G. 

Benson, Floyd E. 

Bush, Ranson A. 

Byers, Frank J. 

Campbell, Clarence E. 

Carter, John H. 

Cave, Ernest L. 

Cheap, George L. 

Dauster, Ralph D. 

Dobson, Bryan 

Embrey, Roy N. 

Fleming, Gilford R. 

Fronk, Cyrus A. 

Goodell, Walter 

Gordon, Clyde F. 

Green, James E- 



Hack, Lyle W. 
Hall, Fred H. 
Henderson, Cletus L. 
Hendricks, George L. 
Hylton, Henry R. 
Jordon, Raymond A. 
Kelley, Orlo T. 
Kerscher, Raymond 
Lambeth, Alson G. 
Lassmann, Otto W. 
Loyd, Thomas A. 
McGinity, James M. 
Magha, Dewey W. 
Miller, Frank E. 
Mosier, Fred T. 
Newton, Elza L. 
Northrup, Walter H. 
Parington, Orrel D. 
Rauhoff, Harry J. 
Saunders, Gwinn J. 
Smith, Carl J. 
Snider, Arley R. 
Summers, Earl E. 
Tomilson, Harvey W. 
Thompson, Robert L., 

Jr. 
Wastle, Frank A. 
White, Ernest D. 
Wilson, John M. 
Wood, George D. 
Wood, Robert W. 
Gant, Clarence F. 



Captain, 

Robert B, Wagstaff 
2d Lieutenant, 

Thomas R. Bartlett 



SUPPLY COMPANY 

Lawrence 

Reg. Supply Sergeants, 
Tuttle, Horace L. 
Templin, Harry W. 
Thompson, Leon R. 



1st Sergeant, 

Kester, Clarence L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Willis, Virgil E. 



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Stable Sergeant, 

Stover, Ralph A. 
Corporal, 

Nelson, Earl C. 
Saddler, 

Cook, Harry T. 
Cook: 

Parker, John W. 
Wagoners: 

Ardrey, Joseph C. 

Allen, Luther 

Debout, Roy N. 



Bishop, Fred H. 
Brown, Orrin C. 
Brown, Russell R. 
Byerly, Arthur D. 
Crane, Chas. W. 
Chambers, Albert R. 
Chambers, Frank L. 
Coffey, Ellis D. 
Dunham, Robert E. 
Fife, Robert F. 
Card, George E. 
Grattan, Alex D. 



Heylmun, Edgar B. 
Hurlock, John B. 
Kraus, Joseph 
Kratz, Francis O. 
Lobuagh, Ray W. 
Peck, Athol 
Percy, Mack J. 
Potter, Clarence B. 
Riggs, Edwin C. 
Remsberg, Everett L. 
Seymour, Frank L. 
Taylor, Russell L. 
Webb, Steve G. 



Captain, 

Archie K. Rupert 
1st Lieutenant, 

Wyndham A. Simpson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Alfred Firstenberger 
1st Sergeant, 

Beck, William J. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Winters, Roy 
Mess Sergeant, 

Coghill, Charles A. 
Sergeants: 

Strickland, Frank P., 
Jr. 

Browe, Owen B. 

McMinimy, Joseph L. 

Kirby, James S. 

DeBord, Ulysses C. 

Browne, Donald L- 

Donlen, William J. 
Corporals: 

Hammer, Nelson E. 

Powell, Paul R. 

Boyle, Ernest E. 

Dedo, Leland C. 

Townsend, Ben G. 

Adams, Frank P. 

Hardin, Edward R. 

Abramson, Harry 

Snowwhite, Gustave F. 
Cooks: 

Orr, Thomas J. 

Hicks, Charles C. 

Phillips, Fred 
Mechanics: 

Asplund, Robert A. 

Urie, Noble B. 
Buglers: 

Carey, Thomas F., Jr. 

McBratney, William 
L. 
1st Class Privates: 

Andres, Everett J. 
DeBord, Hugh G. 

Guns, Earl 



COMPANY A 

Kansas City 

Henderson, Herbert 

A. 
Hill, George 
Jeffords, Paul 
King, Howard O. 
Lane, Paul R. 
Simpson, William T. 
Stevens, Earl 
Stubbs, Earl E. 
Privates: 

Ackley, William E. 
Adams, George P. 
Anderson, Harry 
Anderson, Walter 
Ashlock, Vernon L. 
Asplund, George E. 
Barclay, Dennis 
Beggs, John O. 
Beardsley, Grover C. 
Bergin, Cecil A. 
Bernsthy, William W, 
Booker, Manning K. 
Bowers, Orville D. 
Bray, Russell K. 
Bunevac, Paul 
Brendell, Leo 
Callahan, Frank R. 
Carden, John W. 
Carpenter, Orville I. 
Conaty, Roscoe J. 
Colley, David J. 
Converse, Arthur N. 
Clark, Ora R. 
Crawford, Charles E. 
DeFries, Ruel E. 
DeMeyer, Edmond 
Davidson, Hugh W. 
Dougherty, Forester 

H. 
Dougherty, Leslie H. 
Douglas, John L. 
Dunn, Harvey N. 
Erickson, John 
Faulkner, Arthur C. 
Fiscus, George 
Folscroft, Otis G, 



Force, Archie D. 
Gerhards, Ben J. 
Gerhards, John H. 
Goff, Charles D. 
Goodell, Ralph H. 
Gregory, William 
Grossman, Samuel E. 
Gunn, Donald M. 
Hail, Worden R. 
Hiatt, Frank L. 
High, WilHam H. 
Hill, Harry 
Hillyer, Fred W. 
Holleman, Albert L. 
Jeffords, Frank E. 

Jenkins, Roy E. 
Johnson, Joseph E- 
Johnson, Leon 
Jocliff, Charles D. 
Jolliff, John W. 

Kane, John W. 

Kerns, Commodore h. 

Kirkman. Ridge 

Laudeman, James H. 

Lawrence, Phillip H. 

Layton, Fred 

Lewis, Arthur C. 

Lobeck, John 

Maule, Fred E. 

Malherbe, Arthur L. 

Malott, Harry A. 

Maxwell, Donald E. 

Maxwell, John A. 

Michaelis, Joseph B. 

Mitchell, Wade W. 

Morris, Arthur J. 

Munk^^rs, Gilmer H. 

Nelson, Harry L. 

Newton, Robert W. 

O'Farrell, William W. 

O'Neill. Thomas H. 

Otterman. DeWitt J. 

Pate, William N. 

Petterson, Oscar A. 

Poisal. Walter 

Randel, Samuel P. 



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Reynolds, Joseph I. 
Rash, Elmer K. 
Ridley, Fred 
Sanders, Raymond D. 
Schiller, Arnold A. 
Schwalje, Michael A. 
Schuler, Louis A. 
Schneider, Frank 
Simonsen, Harold N. 
Singleman, Charles H. 
Smith, Arthur L. 
Staton, Edward E. 



Stanford, Jesse W. 
Streiner, Charles G. 
Street, Earl T. 
Sterbenz, Matthew J. 
Stubbs, Gail W. 
Stumph, Bennie F. 
Sudac, Nick 
Tarry, Lloyd W. 
Thompson, William 
Timmons, Everette 
Veix, John A. 



Washburn, Raymond 

S. 
Way, Floyd L. 
Wells, Clarence T. 
Williams, Orie A. 
Wiggins, Ralph 
Wilson, James C. 
Wilson, Merle E. 
Wise, Charles W. 
Woolf, James E. 
Gailey, Edward J. 
Trendell, William 



Captain, 

John R. Thompson 
1st Lieutenant, 

Andrew J. Thompson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Guy E. Vining 
1st Sergeant, 

Theiss, Arthur L. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Hodgen, Calvin J. 
Sergeants: 

White, Jesse 

Lading, Arthur A. 

Birch, Arthur M. 
Corporals : 

Pettit, Charles M. 

Weir, Arthur _N. 

Hutchinson Elzie C. 

Ellson, Ralph E. 

Lanter, John S. 

Masquat, George P. 
Cooks : 

WhifiFen, Paul 

Conner, Charles E. 

Jack, Thomas A. 
Buglers : 

Harris, Clarence A. 

Crawford, Floyd H. 
Mechanics : 

Welker, Lewis E. 

Baldwin, James B. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bolen, Oscar 

Griffin, Charles E. 

Henderson, William 
M. 

Henney, Homer J . 

McMinds, Erwin P. 

Miller, Henry J. 

Smithers, Claude C. 

Stovall, Woodson E. 
Privates : 

Alexander, Ernest 

Allen, Alex 

Anderson, Allie E. 

Archer, Clyde L. 

Balser, Chris E. 



COMPANY B 

HORTON 

Bowman, Roy 
Boyce, Daniel A. 
Brun, Kilby 
Brun, Franklin O. 
Brunner, Sam 
Busser, Earl P. 
Bushey, Dwight C. 
Cahill, Edward J. 
Calvert, George H. 
Cameron, John L- 
Candreia, Louie J. 
Claflin, Sanford F. 
Clark, Walter J. 
Connor, Frank L. 
Connor, John W. 
Conner, Bearl 
Cordill, Ivan R. 
Deeringer, Roland 
Evans, Frank B. 
Filmore, Gus J. 
Foster, Floyd C. 
Foster, Earl A. 
Gibson, George W. 
Gilmore, Earl A. 
Good, Benjamin P. 
Gordon, Jesse C. 
Goux, William F. 
Guier, Joe 
Guy, Fay 
Green, Carl W. 
Grosvenor, Horace 

C. 
Hall, Edward F. 
Tamner, Arthur L- 
Hamilton, Orville E. 
Hawley, DwigKt H. 
Harvey, Luzerne A. 
Herbstreith, Lloyd H. 
Hiatt, Dewey H. 
Hiatt, Marion G. 
Highley, Rolland C. 
Hinkley, Joe B. 
Holtzer, Henry 
Houghton, Leo J. 
lies. Merle T. 
Kinsey, William O. 
Lassen, Ernst 



Lewis, Roy 
Lindsey, Andrew T. 
Long, Roy 
Lyon, George V/. 
Lyons, Homer L. 
McElroy, Lawrence 

E. 
McGuffin, Frank L. 
Maguire, Mark 
Maher, Isadora R. 
Martin, Arthur A. 
Markley, William N. 
Masquat, Henry A. 
Maxwell, Dan K. 
Merz, Floyd H. 
Miller, William E. 
Modeland, Harvey E. 
MonhoUon, James C. 
Mull, John H. 
Munson, Charles D. 
Murphy, William H. 
Noel, Joseph R. 
Noel, William B. 
O'Brien, Earl A. 
O'Brien, Clyde E. 
Osborn, James W. 
Peterson, Raymond 

V. 
Pierce, Claude K. 
Ping, Lester O. 
Ping, Albert 
Raber, Walter E. 
Ray, Oscar N. 
Ray, William J. 
Rick, Harold S. 
Rife, Charles L. 
Riggs, I. B. 
Rivers, Richard C, 
Roberts, Earl A. 
Roberts, Issas W. 
Rogers, Glen W. 
Ross, Earl W. 
Rutlidge, Dewey 
Schlagle, Dannie 
Schlagle, Allen 
Schwaub, John H. 
Schone, Herman A. 



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Scott, Leslie 
Seever, Ray H. 
Slattery, Thomas W. 
Smith, James D. 
Suavely, Neil 
Sowers, Homer 
Spear, Leroy J. 
Spear, Charley 
Stahl, Harold J. 



Stirton, Charley E. 
Stirton, Chester B. 
Tapsee, Lyman 
Thompson, Lester H. 
Thompson, Ivan R. 
Walls, Lawrence 
Warrick, William W. 
Watson, Harry 
Wewenes, Phillip N. 



Whittier, Clyde J. 
White, George E. 
Whiffen, Uridge G. 
Williams, Eddie 
Wilson, Fremont J. 
Winzer, Charles A. 
Wright, Alvin R. 
Wylie, George R. 
Young, Carl H. 
Young, Arthur T. 



COMPANY C 

Burlington 



Captain, 

BVank Barmely 
1st Lieutenant, 

William C. Flook 
2d Lieutenant, 

John B. Salisbury 
1st Sergeant, 

Nelson, Earl F. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Hahn, Fred H. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Reed, Raymond J. 
Sergeants : 

Grennan, Fred L. 

McCuUough, Amer L. 

KulHng, Milton 

Ball, Ross E. 

Adams, George L. 

Wingett, Roy A, 
Corporals : 

Agnew, Patrick W. 

Archer, Erna C. 

Clark, Champ 

Epting, Lindsey R. 

Erantz, William O. 

Gibson, John H. 

Howe, Vincent H. 

McCullough, Glen H. 

Pierson, Ray S. 

Sanders, Donald A. 

Stockton, John 

Sanderson, Austin M. 

Gill, Glen E. 

Polly, Byron G. 

Crockett, Harry J. 
Buglers: 

McCullough, Ray 

Thompson, Howard H. 
Cooks : 

Gibson, Charles 

Munday, Charles W. 

Gibson, Roy 
Mechanics: 

Tohnson, Louis C. 

Pate, Roy 
1st Class Privates: 

Alexander, Clarence 
J. 



Armstrong, Marshall 

B. 
Clark, Rodney 
Gangloff, Alvah C. 
Hahn, Fenton 
Hair, Charles W. 
Hair, Clarence E. 
Hosier, Richard F. 
McAlister, John 
McCullough, Carl H. 
McCullough, Grover 

C. 
Pierson, Austin R. 
Wuerfele, Thomas B. 
Privates : 
Ball, Ira A. 
Bear, Ainsworth 
Beissel, Harold 
Bidleman, Chester W. 
Boissel, Keith 
Brewer, J. Dewitt 
Briles, Owen E. 
Briles, Robert A. 
Brinker, Harold J. 
Bruner, Samuel S. 
Bull, Clyde 
Burdick, Frank 
Busby, Arthur M. 
Cantrell, Lon 
Carter, Ralph M. 
Carter, William A. 
Chadd, Alfred J. 
Cheshire, George B. 
Coffman, Rist H. 
Combs, John E. 
Combs, Lee M. 
Congdon, Hebson 
Crocker, Glen 
Davidson, Louis A. 
Davis, Otis L. 
Dixon, Alfred L. 
Dodge, Clayton M. 
Draper, Alva R. 
Ellis, Harry 
Ellis, Melvin 
Ellis, Melvin 
Emert, Herbert G. 
Flake, Leland 



Fleming, Howard 
Ford, Hugh G. 
Fosnight, Roy 
Fox, Earl 
Freeman, Charles 
Fry, Harris 
Gill, Raymond F. 
Green, Ross A. 
Harrington, Dan A. 
Hedges, Harold H. 
Hugenot, Benjamin K. 
Hughes, Bert 
Hull, Clarence M. 
Ingersoll, Clarence 
Jessop, Frank R. 
Jeter, James H. 
Johnson, John T. 
Jones, Harold C. 
Kahnt, Arthur R. 
Kinney, Myron A. 
Knox, William B. 
Koch, Harnson R. 
Law, Dewitt 
Lipe, Elmer 
Lyman, Issac 
Lytle, William T. 
Manley, William A. 
Mardick, Charles 
Martin, Perry 
l\fcCullough, Fred 
McCullough, James 

H. 
Means, John M. 
Meyers, Joseph E. 
Miller, Vinson W. 
Mollenhour, Fred Tv. 
Mollenhour, George 

E. 

Moore, Frank 
Myers, Max 
Neely, Albert 
Newlad, Forrest 
Nicolay, Owen D. 
Olson, Hugh R. 
Parcell, Earl 
Petschonek, George 

A. 
Phelan, Webster 



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Phillips, Murrel 
Phillips, Theodore 
Proctor, Arthur A. 
Proctor, Clarence 
Proctor, George L. 
Randall, Fred 
Ratliff, Orval S. 
Ream, Leland L. 
Rockey, Everett C. 
Rockey, Loren 



Rudolph, Samuel K. 
Schneider, Mathew J. 
Shemberger, Forrest 

M. 
Sipes, Ernest R. 
Stukey, Elmer E. 
Supple, Howard 
Tetor, Carl F. 
Thomas, Joshua 
Tucker, Everett 



Turner, Harry A. 
Warren, William T. 
Watson, George 
Weigand, Harvey L. 
Westerdale, Plesse F. 
White, Leo P. 
Williams, James E. 
Wingett, Caven 
Winterscheid, Claude 
V. 



COMPANY D 
Paola 



Captain, 

George O. Tronjo 
1st Lieutenant, 

Robert A. Aures 
2d Lieutenant, 

Frank L. Tomlinson 
Supply Sergeant, 

Barton, George 
Mess Sergeant, 

Tronjo, Lawrence F. 
Sergeants : 

Blaisdell, Richards S. 

Bayse, Edmond H. 
Corporals : 

Smith, Thomas 

Keefauver, Harry 

Hackney, Charles S. 

Willis, James 

Smith, Elvis E. 

Snodgrass, Tyler J. 

Ereaster, Harry C. 

O'Roark, Jack 

Huggins, Robert 
Mechanic, 

Hayes, Raymond L. 
Cooks : 

Smith, Robert C. 

Cully, Chilton L. 

Vandoren, Gus W. 
Buglers : 

Marchall, George R, 

Anderson, Harry S. 
1st Class Privates: 

Fisher, Frank 

Hoffman, Harrison M. 

Hamlin, Tom W. 
Privates : 

Achey, Joseph C. 

Anderson, Clair S. 

Arnold, Eddie B. 

Attebery, Chester R. 

Ballard, William 

Beckley, Leonard R. 

Bagshaw, Dennis A. 

Bennett, Marion E. 

Bennett, Donald A. 

Bigham, Fred 

Bigham, Emery H. 



Bradley, Fay M, 
Bradshaw, Jim F. 
Bradshaw, Harry W. 
Burgess, Ralph 
Burd, William 
Carlisle, Edd O. 
Caylor, George W. 
Caylor, Mike E. 
Crabtree, Albert 
Creal, Harry E. 
Cres, Walter E. 
Copple, Murray T, 
Corey, Lynn F. 
Christ, Ernest 
Cruet, Bilton S. 
Dailey, Orval J. 
Dale, Robert R. 
Darlington, Fred F. 
Dehart, Fred 
Ferris, Lloyd G 
Finch, Harry W. 
Ford, Carter 
Freeman, Leslie M. 
Freeman, Frank E. 
Furry, Corbett J. 
Gillenwater, Turner C. 
Clavin, Michael E. 
Graham, Clarence C. 
Gray, Clarence A. 
Hadden, George A. 
Hamlin, Chester 
Hammond, Frank 
Hannon, Harry A. 
Hardin, Ira L. 
Haslett, Forrest E. 
Hatfield, Joe E. 
Hazen, Earl H. 
Harris, Duenice J. 
Henderson, Robert M. 
Henry, Harry H. 
Henry, Peter 
Hodges, McDufifis 
Hoffer, John W. 
Holman, Benjamin A. 
Hay, John C. 
Hearen, Ernest S. 
Jackson, Clifford 
Jacobs, Floyd A. 



Kershner, Floyd A. 
Kuhn, Jesse W, 
Lovewell, Peter M. 
Markley, Noble 
Metller, Dewey 
Mullins, Chester L. 
Mooney, William H. 
McBath, Colfac 
McCoy, Elmer D. 
McConnell, Harvey L. 
McCaulley, James 
McDaniel, George W. 
McLean, Neil P. 
McMahan, Ira E. 
McNutt, Edward T. 
McNutt, Henry E. 
McRoberts, Noah 
Nelson, Harvey G. 
Oehlert, William L. 
Parham, Tom 
Parker, Ralph 
Peck, Ernest 
Plain, Frank J. 
Preedy, Paul 
Pullen, Wallace C. 
Pierce, James A. 
Quisenberry, Benson 

F. 
Reed, Francis T. 
Redd, Hugh R. 
Rice, Marion 
Riley, John F. 
Roach, Thomas A. 
Rowe, Clarence 
Russell, Chester H. 
Russon, Wallace G. 
Sanders, Archie C. 
Shipman, Ralph 
Small, Delbert J. 
Smead, Raymond 
Smith, Lloyd 
Stanback, Alfred 
Stanback, Lon F. 
Taylor, Clyde H. 
Thell, Charley B. 
Trigg, Clarence W. 
Tomlinson, Ralph 
Tuel, Gilba H. 



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Tull, Simson 
Umphenour, Claude 

B. 
Ihnphenour, Calvin L,. 
Umphenour, Ernest 
Vohs, Henry C. 
Vohs, Lee B. 



Webb, Luther H. 
Weesner, Leo H. 
Weaver, Harley D. 
White, Pred A. 
Williams, Frank L. 
Witcher, David S. 
Witt, Albert J. 



Witt, Willis F. 
Wollard, John E. 
Worster, William 
Yates, John H. 
Young, James L. 
Reserves Attached, 
Maxwell, Fred M. 



Captain, 

Ben S. Hudson 
1st Lieutenant, 

George A. Vercherc 
2d Lieutenant, 

Clifford W. Byerly 
1st Sergeant, 

Porter, Armer 
Mess Sergeant, 

Stempf, August F. 
Supply Sergeant 

Willis, Morse S. 
Sergeants, 

Walters, Charles 

Harman, Joseph R. 

Phillips, Lynne C. 

Knaus, Scott 

Hayes, William M. 

Thomas, Roy 

Leech, Seth 

Couk, Cecil V. 
Corporals: 

Wiggins, Alexander T. 

Horney, Jeffrey C. 

Leech, Clement 

Barrigar, Frederick N. 

Carothers, Harry S. 

Fair, Archie V. 

Mount, Guy L. 

Ong, William 

Sheperd, Orin A. 

Brown, Harold N. 

Burch, Cleo H. 

Cady, King M. 

Cohagen, Claire G. 

HampsoH, Thomas D. 
Jr. 

Mount, Clarence I. 

Russell, Orvid V. 

White, Loyal H. 
Buglers: 

Pappert, Rudolph W. 

Brown, Ernest L. 
Mechanics: 

Timmons, Hobart 

Siler, Leo J. 
Cooks: 

Milner, Carl H. 

Mussett, James R. 

Sawdy, Elmer F. 
1st Class Privates: 

Shea, George 



COMPANY E 

Fredonia 

Sallee, Cleo O. 
l'>onser, Dean V. 
Brooks, Louis 
Blinn, Charles O. 
Chambers, John E. 
Champraan, Clarence 

J. 
Chapman, Harley B. 
Cox, Orval L- 
Cox, William E. 
Dial, James C. 
Gill, Carl L. 
Gunby, Merle F. 
Hadley, William A. 
Keitzer, Harold A. 
Lewis, Jerry H. 
Lucas, Paul E. 
Merrill, Ruah R. 
Miller, Evert 
Neighbors, Charles A. 
Nichols, William R. 
Russell, Delbert E. 
Rothgeb, Clarence 
Sargeant, Geo. R. 
Simms, Earl 
Shaffer, Edward 
Thatch, Lester 
White, Edward 
Privates: 

Adams, Walter B. 
Allen, James A. 
Allen, Ed E. 
Alexander, Clarence 

P. 
Beeman, Carl A. 
Beck, Ben H. 
Beek, Bert D. 
Bentley, Fred 
Brittain, William C. 
Camden, Milo 
Coub, Walter L. 
Comer, Harry 
Cook, J. B. Jr. 
Cooley, Orin E. 
Cooper, Basil 
Cantrall, Thomas E. 
Cowan, Homer W. 
Drake, Roy 
Dial, Willis E. 
Dannels, Guy 
Donart, Clarence E. 
Ellis, Karl D. 



Elliott, Claude E. 
Flinn, William A. 
Clifford, Roy 
Green, Iva L. 
Graham, Jerry S. 
Guatney, William W. 
Hasty, Fred 
Heiser, Paul C. 
Hoff, Clarence D. 
Hollingworth, Clarence 
Hutchinson, Cecil 
Hayden, Alva P. 
Heins, Walter E. 
Housley, William H. 
Jones, Jay 
Kirkman, Paul B. 
Kingsbury, Edgar 
Kingsbury, Oscar 
Keim, Stanley D. 
Lombard, Albert F. 
Lombard, Ernest H. 
Lillie, Walter P. 
Lopshire, Harold A. 
Moon, George 
Moore, John L. 
Morse, Milton R. 
Malone, Archie D. 
McMillan, Harry L. 
Moyer, Paul 
McKinney, John 
McAdams, James B. 
McKinney, Hubert A. 
Offenbacker, Percy G. 
Offenbacker, Roscoe E- 
Orr, Loyd 
O'Leary, Edward 
Pringle, William J. 
Penwell, Samuel H. 
Powers, Harry J. 
Richardson, Charles 

H. 
Sparks. Lyman C. 
Shufelt, Roy M. 
Smith, Earl 
Smith, Bob 
Shoup, Oren A. 
Shafer, Irven C. 
Siler, Albert W. 
Scott, Tames M. 
Thompson, Willie C. 
Taulbee. Herman E. 
Terry, Bruce M. 



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Tice, Harry J. 
Troutman, Dewey 
Thayer, Ray M. 
Vermillion, Dorsey G. 
Verchere, Eugene 



Whaley, Kmery M. 
Wells, Francis E. 
White, Forest B. 
Willoughby, Claude E. 



Wolever, Harold R. 
Wychoff, Elmer R. 
Wickman, Floyd B. 
West, John A. 
Yoakum, Bailey 



Captain, 

Henry J. Weltmer 
1st Lieutenant, 

Oscar O. Huber 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Albert S. Bigelow 
1st Sergeant, 

Jackson, Chas. J. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Rubert, Arthur A. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Brown, Reuben F. 
Sergeants: 

Conklin, Lester C. 

Ball, James 

Stewart, Walter L. 

Taylor, Earle W. 

McKee, Chas. R. 

McBurmand, Loyal 
Corporals: 

Shaw, Chester L. 

Shannon, Chas. E. 

Craig, Homer D. 

Davis, Elmer 

Williams, Jay M. 

Kreutzburg, John H. 

Dorei, Murlin 5. 

Britt, Lon W. 

Weddle, Rhubert W. 

Boyer, Carl B. 

Miller, Virgil 

Warden, Walter E. 

Austin, Emery G. 

Bush, George J. 

Russell, Elmer E- 
Mechanics: 

Matson, Dan 

Davis, Herbert 
Cooks: 

Hunn, James 

Miller, Edd. 
Bugler: 

Linnell, William G. 
Privates : 

Andrews, George 

Armstrong, Earle W. 

Askren, Leo 

Avery, John S. 

Bailey, Harrison D. 

Bergen, William A. 

Bergin, Richard F. 

Benshoflf, David L. 

Bishop, Harold J. 

Britt, Lish 



COMPANY F 

Hiawatha 

Brunning, Pearl 
Caine, Carl C. 
Carter, Eugene B. 
Carson, Clifford J. 
Clowe, Orville 
Compton, Walter L. 
Crandall, William C. 
Crothers, Homer L. 
Cummings, George H. 
Curtis, Harold L. 
Dove, Edgar T. 
Dunkin, Ralph W. 
Dunard, Benjamin 
Ebelmesser, Robert B. 
Eichelberger, Henry 

A. 
Fenley, George 
Privates: 

Flemming, Henry A. 
Fordyce, Carl A. 
Fowler, John L- 
Galbraith, Geo. R. 
Good, Geo. L. 
Green, Frank E. 
Hardy, William E. 
Henson, Clyde R. 
Henninger, Ralph 
Hines, Samuel K. 
Hornbeck, Geo. W. 
Houston, Jack R. 
Howell, Ernest V. 
Hudson, Howard P. 
Hull, James E. 
Ivers, Merrill D. 
lies, Robert S. 
Jackson, John C. 
Jepson, Percy N. 
Jones, Ivan E. 
Jones, Jesse 
Johnson, Raymond J. 
Kidwell, Frank E. 
Kiner, Geo. F. 
Lacy, Raymond E. 
Laha, William A. 
Largent, Orville 
Lease, Arlie 
Levick, John W. 
Leibig, Carl F. 
Loftin, Delbert E. 
Longacres, Edward G. 
Lyons, Lorin P. 
McDaniel, van L. 
McEnaney, Joseph B. 



Magers, Pete M. 

Mars, Albert 

Maure, Adolph F. 

Mize, Luther J. 

Morgan, Arthur R. 

Nass, John J. 

Nelson, Grant A. 

Nickels, Lloyd 

Ormiston, Thomas E. 

Overson, Edward M. 

Pittinger, Ray L. 

Potts, Wilfred H. 

Pucks, Francis T. 

Kinne, Theodore H. 

Rudbeck, Thomas 

Schurman, Aver R. 

Sechler, Homer P. 

Seever, Noble E. 

Seyler, John E. 

Shorb, Lyman 

Shupert, William B. 

Simmons, Clark M. 

Smith, Wilber M. 

Spicer, Horace R. 

Stanley, Frank F. 

Stetzman, Willard H. 

Stice, Hoyt 

Stine, Elba W. 

Stonbarger, Millard 

Sttibinger, Jacob 

Stunz, Paul A. 

Swain, Harry J. 

Sweetland, Ernst A. 

Tietz, Evan J. 

Turner, Clarence L. 

VanDalsem, Ralph E. 

Walker, Glenn A. 

Watson, George D. 

Weber, Clinton L. 

Weddle, Cecil M. 

Weddle, Marion L. 

Welborn, Tames E. 

Whaley, Harold L- 

Wiley, Hubert 
Loss. 

Discharged. 
Corporals: 

Watson, Melvin D. 

Gaston, James E. 
Cooks: 

Weltmer, Ivan D. 
Privates: 

Baer, Rudolph 

Dillon, William J. 



380 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Eichelberger, Will 
Fahn, Joseph P. 
Lawrence, Ralph E. 
Soden, William M. 



Sweetland, Glen 1. 
Truex, Byron E. 
Watkins, Kenneth H. 
Transferred: 
Cole, John C. 



Holbrook, Harold J. 
Robertson, Arthur 
Shannon, Alvin B. 
Sticker, LaVerne E. 



Captain, 

John H. Prichard 
1st Lieutenant, 

Harry A. Cooper 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Ed. F. Golden 
Supply Sergeant, 

Masterson, Thomas S. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Parker, Harry B. 
Sergeants: 

Wegscheider, Charles 
R. 

Comstock, Harry I. 

McGrew, Harry 

Runyon, Eugene 

Abrens, Frank E. 
Corporals: 

Compton, Harry W. 

Hoy, Chris J. 

Ragin, Lewis 
Mechanics: 

Brown, George A. 

McGill, George F. 
Cooks: 

Boatwright, Harry W 

Lockwood, Orville W 

Palling, Robert G. 
Buglers*. 

Huff, Hubert W. 

Mitchell, Harold A. 
1st Class Privates: 

Abington, Robert E. 

Ausman, Joseph G. 

Bainum, George W. 

Baker, Carroll 

Carver, Ercy 

Cochran, Julian O. 

Cooper, Edward H. 

Daly, Thomas R. 

Frary, John F. 

Lyon, Harry A. 

Hudson, Bannus 

Harkey, Clair C. 

Mack, Wilson 

Power, Francis M. 

Scott, Herbert W. 

Scott, William M. 

Stufflebeam, Roy 

Thogmartin, Leo 
Privates: 

Ambler, Clem H. 

Asch, Francis G. 



COMPANY G 
Fort Scott 

Aus, Hurst 
Ayers, Henry 
Babbitt, Henry E- 
Barbarick, Clyde W. 
Bird, Asas G. 
Bolin, John H. 
Brady, Harold F. 
Brown, Frank S. 
Brophy, Francis W. 
Burns, John W. 
Carnes, Orval 
Carnes, Ray 
Carnes, Earl E. 
Carter, Orville B. 
Cassady, Ernest L. 
Chatterton, Clell C. 
Clements, Fred R. 
Cooks, Chauncey C. 
Ceberly, Cyrus I. 
Coberly, Kenneth F. 
Coiiley, Earl E. 
Cooper, Thomas N. 
Cowan, Jesse E. 
Cox, Rex A. 
Cullison, David E. 
Cummings, Harold 
Day, Carl H. 
Dean, Ernest 
Dinklage, Kenneth 
Dixon, Frank M. 
Downey, Ernest L. 
Duncan, Roy J. 
Endesfelder, Heinie C. 
Esicks, Loren L 
Galvin, Benjamin C. 
Garrison, Irvin 
Gilbert, James 
Gilmore, Henry A. 
Gillies, James 
Grace, Henry N. 
Gunsaullus, Frank H. 
Hagan, Ernest 
Hare, Fred A. 
Harpold, Frank W. 
Harpold, Ralph D. 
Harpon, Everett W. 
Holstein, Mark M. 
Hoy, Dewey A. 
Hoy, George W. 
Hoy, Henry H. 
Hudson, Stanton 
Hutcherson, Lee 
Hyle, Harry E. 
Insley, Lester S. 
Keffer, Alva W. 



King, Floyd 
Koontz, Leonard F. 
Lewis, Lew L. 
Linn, Roscoe 
Marquis, Marion A, 
Maxwell, Harvey 
McCargar, Claude E. 
McMillon, Jesse M. 
McGrew, Ace K. 
Meacham, Roy A. 
Meads, George W. 
Monroe, Lee R. 
Monroe, Sam L. 
Moody, Ernest L. 
Moore, Burris B. 
Morehead, Harvard A. 
Morrow, Charles H. 
Motti, Earl F. 
Miller, Chester A. 
Nelson, Merl R. 
Neely, Clyde A. 
Newiand, Robert J. 
Nicholson, Lee S. 
Patterson, Arthur L- 
Pepers, Arthur G. 
Phillips, Charles E. 
Pierson, Frank 
Porter, Frank C. 
Powell, Bernon I. 
Reynolds, Harley W. 
Riley, Ray C. 
Sawyer, Raymond C. 
Smith, Everett C. 
Smith, Chesley 
Springer, Raymond L. 
Stalker, Alfred A. 
Stapp, Walter 
Stephens, William T. 
Storey, Earl R. 
Tucker, Gus D. 
Tucker, Roy J. 
Vail, Elmer W. 
Walker, Harry L. 
Ware, Horace M. 
Wells, Vern L. 
Wheaton, Dewey H. 
White, Otto B. 
Whitaker, Harry L. 
Woodard, Wallace L. 
Williams, William 
Wobbe, Harrv L. 
Discharged SCD 
Brown, Guss 
Cleland, George D. 
Lame, Arthur E. 



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Captain, 

Oscar C. Brownlee 
1st lyieutenant, 

Eli B. Dorsey 
2nd Lieutenant, 

E)mery J. Bowen 
Sergeants: 

Clarks, Frank E. 

Walton, Kendall A. 

Skinner, Herbert 
Corporals: 

Price, Archie R. 

Weed, Mahlon 

Price, Robert 

Ward, Clyde F. 

Cheney, Harry L. 

Dunkley, Frank 
Cook; 

Bushy, Edward 
Bugler, 

Otis, Glen 
Mechanics: 

CuUen, Stebbins 
1st Class Privates: 

Carpenter, Miller H. 

Chase, Emerson W. 

Everley, Clarence J. 

Jenkins, Charles W. 

Milner, Earl 

Olmsted, Orley L. 

Rothberger, Fred 

Scothorn, Earl 

Taylor, Alfred G. 
Privates: 

Ashby, Harry M. 

Ayers, Sam L. 

Amey, Russell S. 

Ackerson, Elmer H. 

Buchman, Joseph D. 

Baker, Glen 

Bell, John J. 

Butell, Ernest E. 

Bowersock, Lawrence 
H. 

Branson, Jefferson R. 

Benedict, Francis L. 

Bright, Clarence E- 

Counts, Milton J. 

Crow, David R. 

Clark, Bernal E. 

Cox, Hubevt D. 

Criss, Richard T. 

Clark, John C. 

Corel, Glen J. 



COMPANY H 

Lawrence 

Corel, Charles W. 
Conger, Erie L. 
Criss, George 
Carter, James G. 
DeForest, Robert 
Doyle, Roscoe M. 
Demeritt, Everitt 
DeForest, Lewis H. 
Daugherty, George W. 
Daugherty, Thomas E. 
Dowers, Lilburn M. 
Davis, Albert R. 
Deskin, Lloyd 
Driggs, Frank H. 
Erwin, Claude D. 
Fetty, Andrew E. 
Fitts, Leslie 
Foster, Lloyd E. 
Fast, Cohn C. 
Farell, Roy C. 
Griffin, Lester 
Griffin, Jasper W. 
Gilbert, Edgar F. 
Gibbs, Gorbon E. 
Gaumer, Charles N. 
Grimes, Vance L. 
Huss, Larce A. 
Hundley, Overton E. 
Hall, Elmer K. 
Hope, Charles H. 
Hite, Woodward V. 
Hockings, Orville O. 
Haight, Albert G. 
Harfard, Gerald B. 
Haney, Roy 
Harger, William R. 
Ties, Carl G. 
Johnson, Albert H. 
Jones, James E. 
"laggard, Robert K. 
Tenson, Sherman L. 
Jewell, Roy C. 
Kastner, Kirk B. 
Koelzer, Albert L. 
Kinzer. Edward L. 
Kendall, Leland H. 
Lynch, Albert P. 
Lansing. Jack C. 
Langenderfer, Albert 

C. 
Lewallen, Harry L. 
TvC Suer, Marvin J. 
Daster, Rollis 
Lavin, Eugene T. 
Miles. Horace E. 



Martin, Charles A, 
Main, Claude E. 
Monk, Francis H. 
Martin, Frank O. 
Murphy, Orville W. 
Mann, Willie 
Nesbitt, Robert C. 
O'Neal, Oliver B. 
Osborne, Clifton E. 
Ochse, Edward J. 
Pitts, Ernest C. 
Pinnick, Ira V. 
Pettibone, Victor H. 
Price, Wilson C. 
Phillips, Loyd W. 
Pierson, Oscar 
Proctor, Willard 
Peer, Charles A. 
Palmer, Ezra L. 
Ruby, Ralph D. 
Richardson, George M. 
Richardson, Daniel J. 
Rutherford, Rob Roy 
Rothberger, Max R. 
Robinson, Loren D. 
Robison, Elbert E. 
Shogrin, Arthur C. 
Schubert, Paul J. 
Smith, George W. 
Snow, Anthony E. 
Skinner, Harry C. 
Strahm, Allen D. 
Shumway, Ray C. 
Steinbring, Albert W. 
Sandusky, Steve 
Sperling, Forrest 
Stoner, Grover C. 
Smith, Ray H. 
Trout, Henry D. 
Utterback, Ray L. 
Wilbur, Wesley A. 
Walters, Robert K. 
Wortman, Walter S. 
Weaver, William T. 
Weber. Geo. E. 
Wells, Frank A. 
Zeller. George W. 
Losses Discd. 

Brooks, Claude O. 
Micheelson, Carl E. 
Wells, Nathan D. 
Fearing, Sherman 
Hageman, Harry D. 
Kasold, Arthur 
Yoder, Wren F. 



Captain, 

George R. Crawford 



COMPANY I 

Manhattan 

1st Lieutenant, 

Arthur A. R. Scheleen 



2nd Lieutenant, 
Clede R. Keller 



382 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



1st Sergeant, 

Rediker, living M. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Tolinan, George O. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Apltz, Alfred C. 
Sergeants: 

Broberg, Oliver W. 

Reed, Ollis W. 

McHugh, Dilts S. 

Ferrel, Don E. 

Brown, Duke C. 

Getty, Richard W. 
Corporals: 

Lee, Joy O. 

Allis, Leland C. 

Rader, John W. ^ 

Harper, Dennis K. 

Grooms, Leslie A. 

Newell, Clell A. 

Howe, Clarence B. 

Baker, Robert E. 

Dundore, Clemans E. 

Fraker, Thomas M. 
Mechanics: 

Lundsberg, Chester E- 

Foveaux, William 
Cooks: 

Cordts, Walter A. 

Smith. Charles O. 

Carlton, Lee S. 
Buglers: 

Rothrock, Thomas 

Sawyer, Glen R. 
Privates: 

Ayers, John H. 

Babcock, Dale L. 

Balderson, George W. 

Bartley, Percy D. 

Bennett, Jony W. 

Best, Harry E. 

Bolin, Marcelin H. 

Bradley, David F. 

Bradley, Ralph M. 

Bumbaugh, Albert E- 

Burgess, Edmund B. 

Byers, Verner M. 

Carley, Charles W. 

Carley, George W. 

Casford, Howard J. 

Chapman, Otis E- 

Cobb, Joe T. 

Coffey, Clarence W. 



Comfort, Howard L. 
Cooper, Charles A. 
Day, Francis L. 
Dexter, Archie B. 
Dicky, Donald M. 
Doty, Dale W. 
Dugan, Frank M. 
Falconer, Ralph E- 
Farrell, Edward J. 
Fayman, Plarold H. 
Ferrell, John D. 
Finnigan, John W. 
Fordyce, Wilbur F. 
Foster, Alvin J. 
Frankenpohl, Edward 

F. 
Freeby, Harold L. 
Fulton, Ralph 
Gardner, Richard A. 
Gittings, Bert W. J. 
Goshorn, Carl A. 
Gregg, Earl 
Gross, Martin 
Hamilton, Daniel B. 
Harrold, Earl Spencer 
Harrison, Benard W. 
Hayes, William W". 
Higginbotham, Charles 

L. 
Hodges, William F. 
Hoke, Ercil A. 
Holland, Joseph C. 
Holloway, Myles 
Holm, George W. 
Holt, George W. 
Hopper, Charles E. 
Hurst, E. Fredrick 
Hutto, Dale N. 
Johnson, Alvan A. 
Jones, Morris 
Knisely, Elber M. 
Kraft, George H. 
Langner, Emil W. 
Larson, J. Robert 
Lockard, Virgil F. 
Lowe, William S. 
Lunday, Dewey W. 
Lungberg, George L. 
McBee, George W. 
McKee, Joe FT. 
Maddock, Ralph E. 
Maluy, William B. 
Manrose, Byron 



Messick, Warren 
Meier, Lawrence A. 
Mitschler Paul H. 
Mortimer, Charles 
Murphy, Dewey 
Nelson, Frank 
N ester, Cyrus J. 
Newman, Frank N. 
Osbourn, Ira 
Osbourn, John M. 
Paddock, James L. 
Paddock, Victor V. 
Padgett, Fred M. 
Padgett, Merl L. 
Parrish, Tom H. 
Pearson, Varlourd 
Peters, Lewis E. 
Pillsbury, Hobart E. 
Rains, Harry L. 
Rains, Philip E. 
Reed, Harrison 
Reed, Samuel C. 
Reinders, Charley E. 
Rorig, Albert P. 
Sanders, Morton E. 
Schultz, John 
Scott, Melvin J. 
Selfridge, Palmer W. 
Shaver, John M. 
Shay, John H. 
Shirkey, Earl F. 
Slifer, Ralph 
Smith, Raymond L. 
Stanley, Ralph R. 
Stevens, Roy C. 
Sumner, John N. 
Tangeman, Ralph E. 
Thierer, Jacob O. 
Thorton, Dewey 
Travis, Donald H. 
Unger, Ferdinand J. 
Urban, John M. 
Wakefield, Wallace H. 
Wallace, John W. 
Wallace, Walter C. 
Walters, David A. 
Weeks, Everett J. 
Weninger, Erwin 
Wildinson, Harley W. 
Williams, George E. 
Wilson, Albert W. 
Woolheater, Harold E. 
Wymore, Percy F. 



Captain, 

Lewis C. McDonald 
1st Lieutenant, 

Dan A. Work 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Frank O. Gillette 



COMPANY K 

Garnett 

Supply Sergeant, 
Spradlin, Albert I 

Mess Sergeant, 
Keil, Carl J. 

Sergeants: 

Potter, Bruce B. 



Blackledge, Benjamin 

F. 
Hampshire, Claude C. 
Hiner, Merritt M. 
Adams, Frank B. 



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383 



Corporals: 

Baker, Ottawa E. 

Jones, Bobert L. 

Morris, Lloyd K. 

Tippin, Curtis M. 

Helton, Joe S. 

T ravers, Benjamin A. 

Bvans, Julius O. 

Enslow, Walter L. 

Neil, Arnold J. 

Certain, Harold R. 

Black, Warren C. 
Cooks: 

Stomp, George A. 

Goodwin, Nile U. 

Neil, Walter C. 
Mechanics: 

Melvin, Harry L. 

Tyler, Charles 
Privates: 

Adams, Harry C. 

Anthony, Walter C. 

AcuflF, Morse C. 

Altic, Bennie E. 

Blake, Jesse S. 

Bowen, Jesse A. 

Bryan, Emmett E. 

Buckels, Fred S. 

Bunyan, Harry 

Ballenger, Clarence V. 

Bell, Ralph O. 

Bogart, Charles E. 

Barnes, Robert T. 

Branaman, Hugh A. 

Brumit, William F. 

Balsley, Ira L. 

Blackledge Walter M. 

Barnes, Oliver E. 

Beau, John H. Jr. 

Brock, Otis H. 

Borer, Charles J, 

Cross, Toe B. 

Cook, Paul D. 

Caylor, Leland S. 

Catuska, Clarence D. 

Carter, Marion D. 

Crow, Jesse J. 

Carr, Robert 

Danforth, Harry T. 

Dunn, Harry A. 



Day, Vern H. 
Donald, Alden L. 
Davies, Albert 
DeWolf, Henry F. 
Edington, Merle D. 
Engwall, Carl 
Enochs, Raymond C. 
Fergus, Malcora R. 
Fraker, Ray D. 
Faulkner, Orval H. 
Fishburn, Ray G. 
Freer, Floyd E. 
Garst, Earl F. 
Gates. Truman R. 
Gentry, Carey F. 
Greer, Thomas D. 
Greer, William C. 
Greer, Irving W. 
Graffham, Albert C. 
Graham, Frank O. 
Goff, Harley 
Gunn, Foster A. 
Harrold, Thomas 
Hunt, George T. 
Heiken, Eilert G. 
Hastings, Joseph L. 
Hootman, Lester 
Hanson, Louis H. 
Hunter, Ora L. 
Hubbard, Albert 
Hugill, George 
Henderson, Lester J. 
Kiniaard, Arthur R. 
Keene, Wallace 
Kepple, Edmund P. 
Kelsey, James D. 
Kirkpatrick, Joyce T. 
Kleinsorge, Edwin F. 
Long, John F. 
Lathrop, George A. 
Marconette, Aaron T. 
Melluish,, Parker B. 
Miller, Frank 
Mills, John 
McFarland, Chester E. 
Miller, Max L. 
Mettler, Lee 
McDaniels, Walter 
Muntzert, Orlin E. 



Muntzert, Fred F. 
Mcintosh, Fred H. 
Morton, William H. 
Murry, Frank 
Neil, Hallie H. 
Newquist, Fred J. 
O'Connor, Henry L. 
Ortolf, William 
Overbolt, Jack 
Ohmes, Michael J. 
Ohmes, Frank J. 
Ohmes, Wendell G. 
Osborn, Thomas E. 
Oakley, Ralph C. 
Payne, Harry 
Petty, Charles E. 
Price, Charles S. 
Ramsdell, Frank R. 
Reneau, Everett 
Reed, Charles E. 
Reimer, August C. 
Rowland, Clyde 
Ralston, Truman G. 
Smith, Irl E. 
Smith, Lewis N. 
Sutton, John 1. 
Showen, William 
Staley, Lloyd M. 
Seott, Paul K. 
Shozman, Jacob 
Shuey, Ferguson A. 
Springer, William F. 
Snow, Ellis W. 
Soderstrom, Ralph A. 
Shoemaker, Orvie E. 
Seyler, Ovid 
Shroder, Neil B. 
Tedrow, Frank L. 
Triplett, David S. 
Walker, Charles F. 
Williams, Wallace 
Wick, James B. 
Winter, Wilson N. 
Welton, Vern A. 
Wilcox, Dewey J. 
White, Harry A. 
Losses Discd. 

Adkinson, Wesley E. 
Smith, Edgar W. 



Captain, 

Earle T. Patterson 
1st Lieutenant, 

Paul A. Cannady 
2nd Lieutenant 

Richard M. Phillips 
1st Sergeant, 

Keller, Harry S. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Allen, John F. 



COMPANY L 

Yates Center 

Supply Sergeant, 

Dillman, Omar D. 
Sergeants: 

Haven, Forrest 

Conley, Ray 
Corporal: 

Nannings, Simon P. 
Cooks: 

Lamborn, Carson T. 

McGowan, f^rnest R, 



Branden, Oscar B. 
Buglers: 

LeightoQ, Vear V. 

Hicks, Ralph E. 
Mechanias: 

Hartshorn, Ray 

Naylor, Claud H. 
1st Class Privates: 

Acton, James E. 

Blue, Clifford M. 



384 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Crisler, Ulric F. 
Hardesty, Stanley E. 
Kershner, Joe D. 
Nanninga, Tjaart R. 
Parker, Willis 
Williamson, Claude R. 
Powell, Keith 
Smith, Daniel L. 
Ruble, Robert H. 
Robbins, Pies S. 
Smock, Klexery R. 
Wilson, F;imer R. 
Burlingame, Dudley G. 
Hamilton, Herbert P. 
Lawton, Ray J. 
Lotton, Orrid G. 
Moore, Earl H. 
McCoy, Leslie 
Thrasher, William A. 
Woods, Perry L. 
Privates: 

Ashley, Lloyd E., 
Bauersfeld, Paul T. 
Barber, Frank 
Bowman, Lloyd E. 
Borders, Glenn W. 
Brooks, Willis F. 
Brown, John W. 
Breon, lyeroy W. 
Brooks, Homer P. 
Blackman, Hiram F. 
Bransfield, Martin W. 
Burton, Charles S. 
Bumgarner, Harry V, 
Cramer, Maley O. 
Carpenter, Lloyd C. 
Cook, Robert J. 
Covault, Eddie S. 
Cresson, Sig. 
Craig, Charles M, 
Campbell, Leslie J. 
Chester, V. Lynn 
Carthel, Edgar 
Davis, William T. 
Davis, Will 
Depew, Benjamin W. 
Derby, Neal E. 



Doty, Otis L. 
Dickey, Eber J. 
Dale, Kieth E. 
Ellis, Lenard G. 
Farra, Verne L. 
Frost, Alvin L. 
Goodwin, Ira M. 
Gilford, Edward L. 
Griffitts, Rose C. 
Gilbert, James 
Hackney, Ira W. 
Henry, Charles H. 
Hughes, Bert F. 
Hurlock, Joe H. 
Holmes, Charlie H. 
Henrichs, Walter O. 
Ireland, Martin E. 
Jones, Olaj A. 
Jones, Robert W. 
Jones, Roy O. 
Jones, Milton 
Johnson, Fred H. 
Johnson, John E. 
Johnson, Victor L. 
Johnson, Herbert O. 
Jordan, Wade A. 
Kash, Frank 
Kilby, James A. 
Knotts, John J. 
Knotts, Elias L. 
Lee, Ralph H. 
Lieurance, Clarence J. 
Leonard, Lee L. 
Lynn, William T. 
Lucas, Robert T. 
Leter, William E. 
McAdoo, Clarence, 
McCullough, Thurlew 

W. 
McCall, Archie M. 
McCoy, Ralph 
McClendon, Charles 
Martin, John E. 
Mathis. Oren N. 
Merrill, Walter D. 
Moore, Charles F. 



Mentague, Charles W. 

Moffett, Roy J. 

Miller, Earl L. 

Mabis, Horace R. 

McClure, James C. 

Meinig, William Hen- 
ry 

Mehl, William C. 

Maupin, Emmett, 

Munger, Louis C. 

Mill, Sidney R. 

Nokes, Clarence W. 

Parker, Bert L. 

Pruitt, Harry L. 

Plummer, Wade F. 

Pollock, Harry O. 

Ralph, Melvin L. 

Renner, Lee M. 

Rubert, James J. 

Ravnolds, Mortimer 
E. 

Riho, Frank 

Roberts, Oscar R. 

Saferots, Carl L. 

Scott, Charles L. 

Stewart, Raymon C. 

Sutley, Merle 

Stephens, Ova 

Sponcer, Henry 

Sweringer, Oral 

Snyder, John W. 

Skaggs, Lee 

Trueblood, Harry S. 

Tout, Rollie 

Watts, Milton E. 

Weiland, Chauncey 

Wells, Jesse H. 

Wilson, Loyd R. 

Whetsel, Henry W. 

Wiggins, Walter H. 

Wood, Sammie 

Woodward, William F. 

Williams, Tom L. 

Walz. Walter J. 

Van Wormer, Adrain 

Leshley, Floyd 



Captain, 

Frank E. Jones 
1st Lieutenant, 

Merrill F. Dean 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Frank B. Elmore 
1st Sergeant, 

Sands, Frank C. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Peters, Shirley 
Mess Sergeant, 

Stortz, Frank 



COMPANY M 

Laweence 

Sergeants : 

Adams, Merle J. 

Carpenter, Samuel L. 

Courtwright, William 
W. 

Deeker, Leonard E. 

Hayes, Lusius B. 

Humphrey, Harry L. 
Corporals: 

Aere, Joseph 

Auchard, Virgil 

Bloom, James 



Coe, Fordyce B. 
Hauser, Frank 
Kirby, Glynn 
Miles, Charles S. 
Oliver, Archibald B. 
Riley, Don 
Robbins, Roy S. 
Rust, Boyd 
Spangler, Le Port 
Smiley, Stanton 
Uflford, Neill 
Webb, David W. 



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Mechanics 

Whitla, I^owell R. 
Cooks: 

Creek, William P. 

Moyer, Samuel P. 

Ruppenthal, Harold 
Buglers: 

Acre, Leonard 

Plank, Ewart 
1st Class Privates: 

Auchard, Ralph 

Campbell, Francis 

Hattemer, Otto 

Kelly, Carroll B. 

I^eis, Tracy F. 

Manning, Robert 

Masset, Addison R. 

Rice, Ewart R, 

Rice, Joseph 

Riley, William S. 
Privates: 

Acre, Albert H. 

Ashley, Harry B. 

Austin, Verle 

Ball, Charles M. 

Barnett, George 

Blicks, Paul A. 

Bouton, Dain 

Brown, Karl 

Bryan, Joseph D. 

Bukovatz, John J. 

Bussh, Charles 

Carpenter, Walter T. 

Carpenter, Charles T. 

Carpenter, Robert H. 

Clary, Garnett S. 

Clawson, John H. 

Coe, Auburn S. 

Cottrell, Ray M. 

Couehman, Floyd H. 

Craig, James V, 

Cullen, Albert 

Curl. Hobart G. 

Draskowich, Mike J. 

Dye, Milton L. 



Edwards, John R, 
Eggen, Charles B. 
E;ilsworth, Willoughby 

F. 
Evans, Joe 
Fisher, Earl F. 
Frank, Verne 
Garrigues, Frank O. 
Gee, Merrill H. 
Gibson, Hugh H, 
Gibson, Phillip C. 
Gill, W^ayne I. 
Gordon, Howard 
Griffith, William H. 
Grinstead, James R. 
Haines, Charles A. 
Hale, Milford W. 
Hammer, Byron 
Hart, Charlie E. 
Hart, Mark E. 
Haynes, Malson P. 
Hester, Claude H. 
Holstcn, Verner H. 
Honick, Lewis E. 
Horn, Will R. 
Hughey, William N. 
Hynes, Fred I. 
Jenson, Paul F, 
Johnson, Lewis C. 
Johnson, John 
Kelly, Sherwin F. 
Kincheloe, Ivan C. 
Krappes, John H. 
Krause, Albert F. F. 
LaCarte, Alvarez J. 
Lewis, Charles W. 
Legg, Edwin 
LaudbladCj Leon W. 
Luse, Elgie 
Martling, Francis H. 
McDonald, Ira M. 
McGinness, Byron F. 
McGinness, Hugh T. 
McMurphv, John W. 
Mendenhall, Edgar L. 



Miner, Erie S. 
Mitchell, Basil L. 
Moore, Edmond E. 
O'Brien, Shamus 
Oehrle, Charles F. 
Olson, Forrest C. 
Owens, Seth J. 
Palmer, Opie L. 
Peterson, William T 
Prebble, Fred 
Rader, Ralph R. 
Richter, Theodore H 
Rodgers, Charles Har- 
vey 
Roe, William 
Rogers, John L. 
Rueker, Carl 
Rummell, Ross J. 
Runnion, Ray 
Schutter, Frank J, 
Smfth, Frank 
Smith, Odon W. 
Smith, Wright W. 
Snyder, Ivan V. 
Stewart, Kenneth C. 
Stines, Leonard F. 
Thrower, Walter 
Tinklepaugh, Daune 
Vanderbur, Carl E. 
Van Wormer, Horace 

Walker, Carl 

Warders, Charles E. 

Whiteher, Andrew J. 

White, pliver W. 
Losses, Discharged 
Mechanic, 

Bailey, Arthur R, 
Privates: 

Kane, George C. 

Kemp, Harley S. 

McLaughlin, Walter 
H. 

Powell, Ralph D. 

Volok, Thomas 

Whiteher, Harry 



Privates: 

Ashley, Harry 
Brown, Karl 
Craig, James V. 
Cullen, Robert 
Draskowish, Mike 
Honiek, Lewis E. 



ORGANIZED MILITA 

Lawrence 

Johnson, Louis O. 
Oehrle, Charles F. 
Peterson, William C. 
Richter, Theodore H. 
Rodgers, John 
Tinklepaugh, Dunne 



Losses, Discharged: 
Bryan, Joseph D. 
Bakovatz, John J. 
Fisher, Earl F. 
Gibson, Phillip C. 
Krappes, John E. 
Lewis, Charles W. 



INITAL DEAFT, SANITARY DETACHMENT 
FIRST KANSAS INFANTRY 



Major, 

Henry T. Salisbury 



Captain, 
Ira E. Durant 



1st Lieutenants: 
Joseph E. Alford 
Barnes, Ralph E. 



386 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Sergeants, 1st Class: 
Alphin, Wayne 

Sergeants : 

Curl, Chester L. 
Silverthorn, Earl 
Myers, William R. 

1st Class Privates: 
Anderson, Ivan H. 
Buchanan, Dwight 
Carman, Benjamin 
Derby, Arthur G. 
Dumas, Harry 



Engel, Herman 
Greiss, Murray 
Jones, Sam I. 
McCormick, Norwood 
Martin, Earl L. 
:\Iyers, John B. 
Russell, John C. 
Starkweather, Robert 
Privates : 

Achining, Carl 
Bryde, Phillip 
Cooke, Charles H. 
Daniels, Charles E. 



Francisco, Clell 
Heron, William T. 
Hudson, Adolphus F. 
Hughes, Lawrence D. 
McAllister, Fred L. 
Nichols, Clifford 
Roberts, Harrold M. 
Thudium, Carl 
Woodard, Howard 
Wyatt, Wiley J. 
Losses, Discharged 
Golding, Ned. 



DETACHMENT UNASSIGNED 

Private, 

Eichelberger, Will 



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SECOND REGIMENT, KANSAS INFANTRY 



Colonel, 

Perry M. Hoisington, 
Commanding 
lyieutenant Colonel, 

Fred R. Fitzpatrick, 
Major, 

John H. O'Connor 



HEADQUARTEES 

Newton 

FIELD AND STAFF 

Major, 

Fred ly. lyCmmon 
Major, 

Harry G. Menkemeyer 
1st Lieutenant, 

Homer 15. Wark 
Regimental Chaplain 



1st Lieut. & Bn. Adj. 

John C. Hoehle 
1st Lieut. & Bn. Adj. 

Harry F. Grove 
1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 

James B. Rosseau 



HEADQUAETERS COMPANY 

Newton 



Captain, 

Frank E. Bonney, 
Reg. Sergeant Major, 

Robieson, Frank W. 
Band Leader, 

Beeson, Otero G. 
Bn. Sergeant Majors: 

Morrison, Reed 

Mitchell, Dalbert W. 
1st Sergeant, 

Fink, Louis W. 
Sergeant Bugler, 

Black, Paul L. 
Color Sergeants : 

Noonan, Robert E. 

Fagerquist, Reuben T. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Stewart, James H. 
Jr. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Palmer, Frank G. 
Band Sergeants : 

Olson, Ernest M . 

Di Nino, Frank V. 
Band Corporals: 

Innis, Donald F. 



Hawkinson, Carl W. 

Cooks: 

Bryant, James R, 

Yeager, John B. 
1st Class Musicians: 

Glezen, Roy J. 

Sheffer, Wilhelm G. 
2d Class Musicians: 

Shehi, Dan L. 

Bagby, Charles A. 

Young, Charles D. 
3rd Class Musicians: 

Baer, James D. 

Braithwaite, Robert G= 

Cool, Eugene B. 

Davis, Howard VV. 

Huffine, Guy L- 

Heck, James G. 

Lichtenberger, Harley 
W. 

McFadden, Harold M. 

McGrew, Richard A. 

Norton, Emra A. 

Palmer, Chester E. 

Reynolds, Stanley A. 



Scott, Cyrus W. 

Wesley, Wendell P. 
1st Class Privates: 

Hanna, Ross 

Ferguson, James F. 

Trull, Leo 

White, Ernest L. 
Privates : 

Carlton, V. Berne 

Daugherty, Paul 

Hoover, Donald D. 

Harshman. Frank S. 

McKay, Patrick 

McBeth, Marcus V. 

Robbins, Arthur B. 

Robbins, Herman D. 

Roberts, James 

Sanders, Robert 

Sturtevant, Ernest L. 

Winterhalter. Daniel 
C. 
Horseshoer, 

Sampson, George K. 

Atwood, Arthur F. 

Dixon, David W. 
Discharged, 

Fagerquist, Arthur C. 



MACHINE GUN COMPANY 

Hutchinson 



Captain. 

Guy C. Rexroad 
1st Lieutenant, 

Frank J. Benscoter 
2d Lieutenants, 

Robert A. Campbell 

John Barthold, Jr. 
1st Sergeant, 

Wilson, Ezra J. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Brown, Ray W. 



Supply Sergeant, 

Hyatt, Walter D. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Huston, Lester W. 
Sergeants : 

Parsons, Roy P. 

Lunas, James B. 

McKee, Edward W. 

Shawhan, Leslie L. 

Gibbens, Leon D. 

Crow, Roy M. 



Corporals : 

Bates, Howard J. 
Massoni, Alfred A. 
Middlehurst, George 

S. 
Winters, George W. 
Lloyd, Frank Iv. 
Nelson, William S. 
Rider, Ned M. 
Hagaman, Darrel P. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Cook, 

Dralle, Albert E). 
Buglers: 

Arnold, Ray W. 

Rexroad, Gerald 
Mechanics: 

Warnock, E)arl C. 

Green, Lewis F. 
1st Class Privates: 

Ferguson, John H. 

Johnson, Roy V. 

Fick, Paul F. 

Kimzoy, Harland D. 

Shiffer, Ray H. 

McKenzie, Verl J. 

Dill, Nomian F. 

Whelpley, Charles W. 

Alexander, Paul W. 

Baker, Chester W. 

Barton, Sly 
Privates : 

Blackburn, Stanton F. 



Brooks, Richard G. 
Clark, Walter S. 
Cline, Lester M. 
Cramer, Wendell H. 
Deming, Claude F. 
Fverett, Martin F. 
Fiori, Seraphin 
Ford, Leon A. 
Froh witter, William 

B. 
Fowler, Homer F. 
Grace, Phillip G. 
Hamby, Lloyd W. 
Jennings, Don A. 
Jackson, Floyd F. 
King, Frank 
Klippel, Philip C. 
Lang, Bert F. 
Lockhead, Lewis R. 
Lumm, Jesse 
McGuire, Paul R. 
Mauser, Roy A. 



Nicholson, George T. 

Ross, Bert F. 

Seely, Guy 

Shawhan, Harold R. 

Shive, Myron L. 

Snell, David L. 

Stewart, John F. 

Thompson, J. Arthur 

Turner, Roy F. 

Weaver, Henry J. 

Weeks, Harold H. 

Wentz, Ralph D. 
Sergeant, 

Maltby, Arthur L. 
Horseshoer, 

Bates, Chester I. 
Cook, 

Nagle, Charles A. 
1st Class Private, 

Richards, Arba F. 
Privates : 

Buggelin, Charles F. 

Flmes, Harry 



Captain, 

Alfred F. Noonan 
2d Lieutenant, 

Jesse M. Nixon 
1st Sergeant, 

Smith, Fustace 
Reg. Supply Sergeants: 

Rohrer, Samuel J. 

Snyder, Parker L. 

Henney, Alfred K. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Baugher, James W. 
Corporal, 

Lantz, Dillard A. 
Cook, 

Haines, Walter H. 



SUPPLY COMPANY 
Hutchinson 

Horseshoer, 

Dunham, Noah F. 
Saddler, 

Weatherman, Ferrell 
F. 
Wagoners : 

Adkinson, Levi J. 

Albrecht, Irvan 

Battershell, John 

Brown, Harvey L. 

Carr, Robert F. 

Cecil, Aaron B. 

Clark, Ralph C. 

Collins, Charles L. 

Dopps, Lyman J. 

Duncan, Clyde 

Harrel, Fdward 



Hershberger, Locke H. 
Huntsman, Charles L. 
Knight, Frank H. 
Lennen, Farl L. 
Leslie, Ansel F- 
Mallory, Harrison D. 
Manny, Frnest C, 
Manny, Ora A. 
McClure, Frnest A. 
McCowan, Oliver W. 
Ritherhouse, Lester 

A. 
Smith, Wilfred D. 
Sriiith, Paul J. 
Stewart, Charles F. 
Wainner, Ralph R. 
Warren, Mansford F. 
Wheeler, Sidney R. 



COMPANY A 
Wichita 



Captain, 

Frank F. Barr 
1st Lieutenant, 

Paul J. Simpson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Fmil G. Keil 
1st Sergeant, 

Seymore, Theodore 
Supply Sergeant, 

Palmer, Farl J. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Branch, Ralph A. 



Sergeants : 

Dodman, Farl 

Ford, Hobart A. 

Bodkin, Charles W. 

Waldron, Hugh 

Hopkins, Thomas 

Inman, Boyd 

Dodds, Flbert L. 
Corporals : 

Banks, Clyde J. 

Tngle, Millard T. 

Seese, Harry A. M. 



Martin, George F. 
Fnglish, Clarence A. 
Barbrick, Farl 
Ulmer, Charles 
Olmstead, Farl O. 
Gaskill, Louis W. 
Stephens, William J. 
Mathews, Harry S. 
Rouse, Harry L. 
Cooks : 

Grimes, Fdward L. 
McDufiis, Norman L. 



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Mechanics : 

Shields, Eugene B. 

Grimes, Scott L,. 
1st Class Privates: 

Childers, Alva B. 

Carter, Harris G. 

Dunham, Frank V. 

Hake, Herbert H. 

Knox, Thomas N. 

Martindale, Lyle M. 

Offenstein, Ross B. 

Rector, Walter M. 

Thompson, lyco V. 
Privates : 

Armour, Jack W. 

Andrews, Robert P. 

Barrett, Henry F. 

Bennett, Carl 

Bonner, Eugene B. 

Booth, Otis P. 

Brown, Herbert R. 

Brown, Guy C. 

Brown, Herbert R. 

Brewington, Glenn 

Burgett, Fred S. 

Carpenter, Sherman 
R. 

Casto, Clyde R. 

Cleary, Cecil E. 

Crafton, John W. 

Crafton, Wright M. 

Crist, Paul A. 

Daugherty, Victor M. 

Daisy, Raymond 

Davis, lyaverne 

Dondelinger, L,ouis 

Drake, Shad 

ElHott, John S. 

Fintelman, William 
R. 

Fisher, George H. 

Fitzgerald, Jesse L. 

Fralick, Ransler C. 

Gay, Bryant W. 

Gillel, Edward E. 

Guy, Robert E. 

Hartman, lyUther M. 



Heath, Don A. 
Hendren, Clyde M. 
Hendren, Paul 
Hicks, Ralph I. 
Holcomb, lyouis H. 
Howell, Rex 
Hull, Orval P. 
Humbert, Eee R. 
links, Harry L,. 
Kelly, George W. 
Kendrick, Fi-ancis A. 
Kiehl, Dale M. 
Kirk, Harvey F. 
Lampe, George H. 
Ivickly, Morris J. 
Eightner, George H. 
Lindaberry, Joe 
Eindt, Otto H. 
Eish, Ira N. 
Eusk, George B. 
McAvey, Arch G. 
McCartney, Jacob E. 
McCool, Earl J. 
McCorgary, Thomas 

A. 
McDermott, Ira D. 
Martin, Eouis A. 
Mason, Emmett, M. 
Milner, Champ O. 
Minard, Frank B. 
Mitchell, Earl S. 
Moore, Homer R. 
Morgan, Claude W. 
Morris, William V. 
Morrison, Harry K. 
Norvell, Frank O. 
Newcomb, Eeland A. 
O'Haro, Vernard C. 
Oldfield, Charles H. 
Page, Tom E. 
Palling, William R. 
Pattinson, John R. 
Peacock, Elton D. 
Penny, George 
PhilHps, Joe W. 
Pierce, Clarence O. 
Pitts, WilHam A. 



Propp, Daniel R. 
Peterson, Harry T. 
Raly, Fred E. 
Reedy, Raymond 
Reeves, Harold E. 
Repledge, Bedford B. 
Robinson, Roscoe E. 
Rowe, Horace D, 
Sage, John F. 
Sampson, Roy E- 
Schmucker, Theodore 

I. 
Schreffler, Charles E. 
Schreffler, Clarence 

G. 
Scott, Oliver W. 
Seal, Roy D. 
Shick, Floyd R. 
Silvius, Richard O. 
Singleton, Grover F. 
Smith, Ezekial P. 
Sommerviller, WiUiani 

A. 
Stine, George B. 
Taylor, Walter W. 
Templer, Alfred E. 
Thompson, Orin E. 
Townsley, John A. 
TilHnghast, Frank L. 
Treft, Charles W. 
Truex, Caleb C. 
Tyron, Harley D. 
Walker, James K. 
Whitecotton, Arthur 

E. H. 
Wilcox, Edwin C. 
Willard. Albert E. 
Wilson, William H. 
Wilson, Zynn M. 
Winn, Newton R. 
Wood, Frank E. 
Cummings, Thad E. 
1st Class Privates: 

Knox, Thomas W. 
Privates : 

Barritt, Henry E. 
Eampe, George H. 



Captain, 

Scott Berridge 
1st Eieutenant, 

Roy S. Gibson 
2d Eieutenant, 

Clarence A. Rennick 
1st Sergeant, 

Grubbs, Clarence O. 
Sergeants : 

Knox, Garrett W. 

Flynn, James V. 

Bird, Victor T. 



COMPANY B 

HOLTON 

Fairchild, Harold H. 
Slaughter, James R. 
Eambert, Emery W. 
Jarvis, Russell J. 
Eong, Phillip 
Dale, Harold 
Corporals : 

Mann, Harold 
Horton, Francis A. 
Eutz, Harry E. 
Bradley, Walter 



Mechanic, 

Butrum, Clarence A. 
Cooks: 

Beems, Roger 

Brumfield, Elmor D. 
Buglers : 

Young, Clarence O. 

McGehe, Floyd A. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bailey, Arthur L. 

Dennis, Herschel 

Eaden, Roscoe 



390 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Karstetter, Frank C. 
Morrissey, James L- 
Privates : 

Alexander, Harold L. 
Alexander, Roy C. 
Alexander, Wilmer 
Alendorf, Jacob G. 
Bair, Ralph 
Baertch, Carl E). 
Baldwin, Clifford G. 
Baugh, Hilton 
Barnes, Virgil 
Barr, Ray 
Baxter, li^mmett 
Benander, Arthur 
Bossier, John W. 
Bottom, Leroy 
Bradley, Jesse 
Brown, Paul R. 
Bronston, Byron E. 
Blackwood, Fred J. 
Brubaker, Stewart H. 
Carlson, Edward G. 
Caywood, Walter F- 
Chrisman, Paul H. 
Chrisman, Spencer 
Christian, Robert R. 
Christensen, James P. 
Clements, Harry C. 
Conklin, George D. 
Compton, Harry H. 
Curtess, Samuel W. 
Davis, Harold 
Day, Elmer 
Day, Roy C. 
Darling, Ernest G. 
Douglas, Ora 
Dunn, Jack 
Eby, Harry R. 
Earl, Isaac Henry 
Fess, Russel B. 
Forsberg, Clarence 
Fultz, Harvey 
Glendening, Perry W. 
Gray, William 
Hall, George 
Hannah, Cecil 
Harris, John T. 
Hart, Joseph C. 
Hartman, Elmer G. 
Hartman, Fred H. 
Heiselman, William H. 



Hickcox, Charles M. 
Hill, Lee 
Hill, Paul N. 
Hollis, Doyle 
Holt, McKinley 
Ireland, Percy S. 
Johnson, Earl D. 
Kathrens, Charles 
Kesling, Opha L. 
Kidney, Emmett 
Kidney, Scott 
King, Ralph T. 
Kroth, Ralph T. 
Lewis, Charles 
Lewis, Worth A. 
Lines, McLin 
Lines, William 
Marion, Levi 
Michaels, Raymond E- 
Mitchell, Birt 
Mitchell, Clifford R. 
Mitchell, Clarence E. 
Mitchell, Thomas A. 
Miller, George N. 
Miller, Oscar 
Minor, Gilbert S. 
Musselman, Francis 

C. 
Meyers, Irenous C. 
Meyers, Claude L. 
Meyers, Claude L. 
McComas, Clyde C. 
McHenry, Milton 
McKinsey, Bert 
McKinsey, Ray 
IMcMurtry, Eugene 
McPherson, Charles 

W. 
McPherson, Clyde O. 
Nelson, Jesse 
Nicholas, Lloyd 
Nicholas, Otis C. 
Osterhold, Frank 
Park, Charles E. 
Patterson, Harold 
Pointer, Virgil D. 
Pollock, Marion L. 
Priest, Walton E. 
Roby, Paul T. 
Rudy, Ernest A. 
Russell, Ralph V, 
Russell, Ray C. 



Sanderson, George W. 
Simmons, Leroy D. 
Simpson, Erwin C, 
Slate, Lee 

Slater, Meredith H. 
Smith, Lewis J. 
Stafford, David L. 
Stanley, Elmer 
Starkey, John W. 
Steele, Wilford C. 
Stephenson, George 

L. 
Stonebraker, James 

D. 
Stonebraker, Louis J. 
Sullivan, Earl D. 
Suter, Harold B. 
Thompson, Loren E. 
Thompson, Leon 
Thompson, Ross F. 
Tift, Rawlin L. 
Utterback, Frank R. 
Ward, Roy E. 
Wvatt, John F. 
Fletcher, Paul C. 
McClacherty, John 

W. 
Overgard, Ray 
Patrik, Frank 
Shoenberger, Russell 

1st Class Privates: 

Skinner, Owen G. 

Spittler, Leaman 

Stone, Herbert R. 

Sweeney, Daniel K. 

Stringham, Leon 

Sweeney, Ross L. 

Swick, Herbert T. 

Temple, William 

Thomas, Guy M. 

Tunnell, Earl G. 

Turner, Howard E. 

Vierra, John 

Wood, Morgan L. 
Losses, 
Discharged: 

Gilmore, Dave E. 

Perkins, Clemet 

Sturm, Guy 
Corporal, 

Higbee, Roy B. 



Captain, 

Scott McKenzie 
1st Lieutenant, 

Clarence H. Quigley 
2d Lieutenant, 

Louis R. Scott 



COMPANY C 
Great Bend 

1st Sergeant, 
Doklyn, Ray A. 

Supply Sergeant, 
jilomyer, Harry H. 

Mess Sergeant, 

Truex, Adelbert G. 



bergeants : 

Redwine, Reginald F. 
Burns, Frank L. 
Roper, Samuel D. 
Swift, Jay G. 
Crouse, Charlie W. 



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Arth, Edgar J. 

Heuiesen, Frank 

Boylan, Brad 

McGreevy, Urban 

Lamoreux, Wayne 
Corporals : 

McFadden, William F. 

Hunt, Albert D. 

Kinniard, Fugene B. 

Woodburn, Gustavus 
W. 

Hook, John 

Ruble, Charles A. 

Wood, George C. 

Breeden, Ivco F. 

Grubb, Floyd 

Wilson, Roscoe 

Johnson, Gilbert M. 
Mechanics : 

Pritchard, Paul E. 

lyocke, Thomas A. 
Cooks : 

Girdner, Kelly W. 

Morrison, Damon W. 
Buglers : 

Scheufler, William F. 

Soden, Walter G. 
1st Class Privates: 

Ashpole, Archie 

Alexander, Ira 

Brown, Reid A. 

Bertram, Walter F. 

Chapman, Roscoe 

Carleton, Raymond R. 

Cowley, Stone O. 

Drawbridge, Mason R. 

Everitt, Lloyd G. 

Gunn, Edwin R. 

Hearne, Floyd R. 

High, Branch D. 

Harvey, David 

Jurgensen, William 
M. 

Krebaum, Calvin V. 

Keenan, John B. 

Keller, Walter F. 

Leadbetter, Alva 

Longmoor, Charles H. 

Meyer, August H. 

Mayes, Walter R. 

Petty, Oliver H. 



Robertson, Alexander 

L. 
Rinker, Roy L. 
Sipe, Charles L. 
Steadman, John P. 
Speck, Charles F. 
Wesley, Charles A. 
Yetschke, Clarence 
Privates : 

Armstrong, Bliss 
Brown, Henry F. 
Bryant, Levern 
Boebeck. Arthur F. 
Bortz, Andrew J. 
Bone, Bentley O. 
Bonham, Oscar L. 
Brodbeck, Ernest A. 
Blackburn, Jake M. 
Batman, Dilla 
Bedford, Charles E. 
Bright, George A, 
Culbreath, Arthur 
Cook, Cecil F. 
Gates, Fred 
Clinton, Arthur 
Deines, Adam 
Dix, Buford 
Dyer, Roy 
Durbin, Charlie 
Ewing, Jessie W. 
Fisher, Emmett M. 
Fritscher, Henry 
Graham, Morris T. 
Gabbert, Ernest C. 
Gooing, Mack 
Grubb, Walter S. 
Hoffman, Henry J. 
Hayes, James W. 
Highland, Royal G. 
Hoffman, Conrad 
Hargrave, William A. 
Hook, Henry 
Hardesty, Charles H. 
Hall, Hugh 
Jones, William J. 
Jones, Bee W. 
Teffers, McKinley H. 
karr, William F. 
Kenney, Guy J. 
Kruss, William H. 
Lynn, Vernie O. 



Livesay, William O. 
McCracken, Harry 
McClure, Fred A. 
McCorkle, Owen W. 
McDaniel, Gerald 
McDaniel, Clarence 

A. 
McClure, Guy E. 
Mercer, Earl M. 
Mahoney, Denny 
Moore, Reuben W. 
Nelson, Roy N, 
Newell, George S. 
Orm, Ira E. 
Powell, Roy A. 
Powell, Harold Q. 
Quimby, Loy S. 
Radke, Albert L. 
Renfro, Aubry 
Richardson, Charles 

E. 
Speck, Earl 
Swab, Norman E. 
Stoskopf, Lester E. 
Snow, Elmer E. 
Scott, James L. 
Steenis, Richard J. 
Stone, John H. 
Sloan, Alva L. 
Sieker, Walter O. 
Shuck, Frank M. 
Sullivan, William L. 
Segandollar, Fred 
Skinner, Henry C. 
Sams, Lester L. 
Shook, Perry O. 
Tromer, William S. 
Tinnemeyer, John H. 

F. 
Trear, Patrick 
Talbott, Henry W. 
Tabler, Ivan E. 
Varner, Leo O. 
Wilson, Jack 
Warner, Earl L. 
Whaley, George B. 
Walker, Joseph W. 
Ward, Earl A. 
Wemmergren, Karl 
White, Clarence H. 
Wilson, William B. 



Captain, 

Fred E. Ellis 
1st Lieutenant, 

Verne G. Breese 
2d Lieutenant, 

Harry B. Dorst 



COMPANY D 

McPherson 

1st Sergeant, 

Hennessey, Clarence 
A. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Drake, John C. 
Sergeants : 

Canfield, Thomas N. 

Marymee, James C. 



Gillilan, John A. 
Bailey, Lawrence S. 
Hull, Wayne G. 
Corporals : 

Greenshaw, Otis O. 
Bretches, Lloyd 
Coblentz, Luther 
Hagstrom, Granvil 



392 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Vague, Thomas R. 

Gordon, Joseph A. 

Larson, Willard E^. 

Sayler, George J. 

Koehn, Alex R. 

Stauffer, IMarion W, 

Ruggeri, Antonio 
Cooks : 

George, Charles A. 

.Minns, Paul J. 

Parks, Harvey L. 
Bugler, 

Hill, Lloyd L. 
Mechanics: 

Dilley, Rufus F. 

Malm, Andrew 
1st Class Privates: 

Caliway, Welborn 

Clark, Arthur 

Gronfur, Iver 

Haga, George 

Janke, Herbert 

Roffman, Ray 
Privates : 

Adams, Melvin W. 

Anderson, Edwin A. 

Ash, Guy H. 

Basinger, Pesca L. 

Bannan, Alvin K. 

Banman, Daniel F. 

Beranek, James M. 

Blair, Bern B. 

Blair, Arthur L. 

Bowlby, Raleigh C. 

Bretches, Dewey W. 

Bias, Frank L. 

Bishop, Lloyd A. 

Bistline, George A. 

Branton, Ralph L. 

Case, Alex H. 

Carrell, William W. 

Chapin, Herbert M. 



Clark, Francis M. 
Clark, Donald S. 
Carter, Clarence 
Crouse, Harry R. 
Cramer, Ward B. 
Curtis, Chas. H. 
Cade, Carl D. 
Dossett, Ralph R. 
Duby, Jesse C. 
Dugan, Lon T. 
Duhn, August W. 
Dyck, Frank F. 
Ek, Fmil 
Filer, John A. 
Finkle, Earl P. 
Fisher, Harold B. 
Fisher, Sidney P. 
Eraser, Rosser C. 
Frye, Clifford C. 
Going, Verno E. 
Grant, Hiram E. 
Godown, Lester E. 
Haynes, Ivan R. 
Hayson, Fred G. 
Harger, Walter B, 
Harris, Verner G. 
Hereford, Harold R. 
Helgeson, Carl M. 
Hook, Ernest D. 
Hill, John G. 
Ivey, Jack 
Ishmael, Clifton 
Jackson, Thomas W. 
Johnsey, Eddie L. 
Johnson, Elmer O. 
Kelly, Stewart S. 
Kelsey, Raymond G. 
Kellett, William F. 
Kutnink, Paul E. 
Krehbiel, Edwin G. 
Knowles, Elmer E. 
Lathwell, Earl J. 



Larson, Homer W. 
Lloyd, Leon S. 
Lloyd, Ivan L. 
Lonberger, Frank M. 
Lipe, Orville L. 
Lipe, Loran 
Luginbill, Arnold P. 
Maguire, Lee R. 
Magathan, Benjamin 
Magathan, Lemuel E- 
Maltby, George E. 
Merritt, Frank W. 
Messbarger, Uriel E. 
Mulnix, Ben R. 
McIMurrav, Fred L. 
McPhail, Ross 
McDougal, Earl M. 
Nelson, Ernest A. 
Nelson, Edward J. 
Nell, John H. 
Niggeman, William J. 
O'Bryant, Chas. W. 
O'Byrant, Archibald 

M. 
Overbey, Claude R. 
Owen, Ray D. 
Parr, Everet R. 
Post, Floyd E. 
Pollitt, Dallas D. 
Pierce, Cecil A. 
Rariden, Edgar L. 
Ranstrom, Robert R. 
Rehtz, Herman 
Reid, Lester L. 
Rutledge, Paul R. 
Rutledge, Gayle N. 
Sandifer, William J. 
Santee, Harold P. 
Serviss, George E. 
Shaw, Joe R. 
Siebert, Howard 
Simpson, Paul M. 



Captain, 

William R. Fleeman 
1st Lieutenant, 

Durward J. Wilson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Harvey R. Rankin 
1st Sergeant, 

Stewart, Donald P. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Houston, Rex C. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Cline, Frank B. 
Sergeants : 

Mather, Clarence T. 

White, Louis D. 

Potter, Donald C 

Wickendoll, Albert 



COMPANY E 

Hutchinson 

Newton, Roy H. 
Crippen, Dale L. 
King, Fred W. 
Corporals : 

Davolt, Bert V. 
Tucker. Morris J. 
Ransay, Ivan G. 
Beuttner, Harry G. 
Brundige, Charles R. 
Foster, Lester O. 
Vaughn, Frank A. 
Abbott, Seth J. 
Edwards, Plobart 
Short, Charley 
Strobel, Howard E- 
Woods, James H. 
Ulmer, Joseph L. 



Mechanic, 

Gibbs, Leonard A. 
Cooks : 

Cox, Lloyd B. 

Cam.pbell, James W. 

Howe, Roy A. 
Buglers : 

Miller, Norman W. 

Bergen, John K. 
1st Class Privates: 

Anderson, Edwin A. 

Blackball, Malcolm R. 

Brace, Clayton W. 

Cheatum, Claude E. 

Clark, Milo G. 

Donnell, Kenneth B. 

Frye, Emmett A. 



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393 



Hardwicke, John H. 
Hobson, Floyd H. 
Hodgson, Garrell D. 
Houston, Thomas S. 
Howe, Edgar K. 
McCullum, Archie D. 
McKee, Arden H. 
Moeser, Frank P. 
Patton, Joseph R. 
Peck, Ralph F. 
Richards, James B. 
Smither, William F. 
Tucker, Russell G. 
Ulmer, Plarvey W. 
Vogt, John 
Waggerman, Hubert 

h. 
White, Albert E. 
Whitehead, William J. 
Zumwalt, Charles L,. 
Privates : 

Ackley, Henry W. 
Altis, Charley C. 
Anderson, George C. 
Anderson, Pete C. 
Anderson, Ralph M. 
Barksdale, William 

W. 
Banres, Clarence C. 
Battin, Alfred H. 
Battin, William A. 
Black, John A. 
Bowen, Albert W. 
Brown, Earl F. 
Calbert, Lee M. 
Canfield, William R. 
Canfield, John H. 
Carter, Norman A. 
Coffelt, Terril C. 
Cooper, Eldon L. 
Danner, Ira O. 
Davis, John S. 



Devore, Nicholas L. 
Foreman, Kay M. 
Fowler, Orville D. 
Fowler, William W. 
Fritz, Joe H. 
Fullerton, Robert W. 
Fulling, Vergil H". 
Goodrich, George W. 
Gosen, Dick W. 
Grosham, Floyd 
Griffith, Bertie R. 
Harrington, Joseph F. 
Hart, Ralph R. 
Hawkins, Roscoc O. 
Hill, William F. 
Plobbick, Howard R. 
Howard, George 
Ivey, Kellie M. 
Kenoyer, Earl 
Kenoyer, John E. 
Koon, Fred C. 
Eambertus, John W. 
Lewis, William W. 
Love, Joseph E. 
Lyons, Everett M. 
Malone, William L. 
Martin, Hillary R. 
Mawby, Felix M. 
McCamant, Donald G. 
McCollum, Claude V. 
McColm, Arthur L. 
McHone, William A. 
T^.IcAIullen, Hubert li 
Miller, Frank R. 
Nelson, Ely 
Parker, Kenneth R. 
Pauls, Otto 
Porter, Russell B. 
Poulton, Gleason E- 
Powell, Ernest F. 
Price, Frank M. 



Sanford, George R. 

Schock, Ferrol E. 

Scott, Chauncey H. 

Scott, Clarence J. 

Seaman, Charley L. 

Shepherd, William P. 

Staley, Charley E. 

Stapleton, Raymond R 

Stephenson, Fred L- 

Stephenson, Leroy B. 

Stewart, Grant 

Stockton, Albert N. 

Stone, Fred 

Truitt, Albert H. 

Truitt, Alfred L. 

Watkins, Benjamin F. 

Watts, Emerson A. 

Whitehead, Charles 
E. 

Weigel, Fay M. 

Williams. Claude 

Wilson, Ottis C. 

Wilson, William H. 

Young, Harry L. 

Yowell, Benjamin W. 

Zumwalt, Andrew J. 
Losses, 
Discharged, 
Sergeant, 

Hall, Claude H. 
Corporals : 

Hobby, George H. 

Hicks, Bert L. 

Porter, Verner B. 

Williams, Charles E- 
Mechanic, 

Weaver, James H. 
1st Class Privates: 

Foster, Leon L. 

Parmley, Ernest W. 
Private, 

Atkinson, Floyd W. 



Captain, 

Clarence M. Smith 
1st Lieutenant, 

Albert L. Thorn- 
brough 
2d Lieutenant, 

Carl E. Burgess 
1st Sergeant, 

Bell, Joseph N. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Bish, Frank 
Supply Sergeant, 

A'Neals, Albert 
Sergeants : 

Arnold, Manford F. 

Barr, George S. 

Stutzman, Robert 11. 



COMPANY F 

Larned 

Edwards, Gilbert C. 

Graham, Ira M. 

Myrick, Edgar P. 

Purdvie, Paul 
Corporals : 

Fisher, Henry O. 

Moore, Millard 

Avery, John K. 
Cooks : 

Rice, Harry 

Ridge, Jim 

Creaghead, Harry 
Mechanic : 

Wonsettler, Oscar 
Buglers: 

Croan, Ephraim 

Ingels, Vernon E. 



1st Class Privates: 
Artzberger, Harland 
Armstrong, Willard 
Bass, Lawrence 
Blankenship, Bert M. 
Deighton, George S. 
Estes, Loy C. 
Gregory, Miles H. 
Hundley, Claud J. 
Jenkins, Charles 
Kirch, John H. 
Litsey, Aden 
Lockey, Paul 
McAfee, Harrison 
Michler, Don A. 
Raymor, Grady F. 
Rynerson, Russell 



394 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Shoup, Jesse R. 
Sooby, Benjamin H. 
Smith, Roger E. 
Sherry, Thomas L. 
Taylor, Brooks 
Weeks, Wade R. 
Privates : 

Ackerman, Spencer C. 
Anderson, Pro 
Arnold, Archie L. 
Allbritton, Jackson C. 
Artzberger, Raymond 

F. 
Brooks, Royce 
Barnett, Monroe 
Bindley, Mark R. 
Burson, Ralph A. 
Biehn, Harrison H. 
Barcus, Thomas O. 
Blecha, Frank J . 
Carrell, Carl 
Chalmers, Ray W. 
Chumbley, Arlice C. 
Craghead, Walter 
Couch, Earl E. 
Campbell, John C. 
Chears, Walter S. 
Crean, Reuben H. 
Croan, Howard U. 
Dahl, Frank 
Dupree, Roy L. 
Edgar, Hubert 
Evans, Thomas L. 
Force, Ora M. 
Flewelling, Ervin M. 
Ferguson, Arthur L. 



Gore, Louis R. 
Griffith, Earl 
Geer, Carl H. 
Gibbs, James 
Gibbs, Jesse 
Gode, Edgar H. 
Ginn, Floyd S. 
Gibbons, Albert W. 
Haff, Lawrence 
Hawkins, Chester 
Hager, Charles S. 
Hoover, Carl 
Hennessey, Myron W, 
Haugh, George D. 
Howard, Harold D. 
Hoover, Arlie C. 
Jarvis, Ralph 
Johnson, Orvill 
Jordan, Edmond 
Jordan, Ivel J, 
Johnson, Albert C. 
Keberlein, George J. 
McBride, Frank T. 
Meyers, Harold J. 
Morris, Glenn W. 
Milton, Grant 
Milton, Harvey E. 
Milton, Elisha P. 
McVey, Jake H. 
Miller, Clyde H. 
Michler, Frank L. 
Murty, Lane 
Nairn, Guy W. 
O'Hanlin, Clyde S. 
Oatrand, Otto C. 
Ormord, Marshall S. 
Pittinger, Perceival 



Preston, Orville 
Post, Walter E. 
Peck, CliflFord H. 
Parry, Rauland S. 
Pauley, Orville 
Parker, Reese H. 
Parks, Arthur H. 
Quinn, Patrick 
Russell, Harry F. 
Reynolds, Colman 
Raney, Carl 
Reynolds, Jack 
RatcliflF, Egbert R. 
Richardson, John A. 
Simmons, Charles E. 
Simmons, Harold R. 
Smart, Harry W. 
Sutton, Walter B. 
Scott, Arthur 
Shepherd, Ralph E. 
Sterling, Earl 
Sterling, Daniel L. 
Teliver, Emit R. 
Thomas, Alfred H. 
Thompson, Edward T. 
Turner, Henry I. 
Turner, Sampson A. 
Watts, Earl N. 
Webb, James M. 
Walker, Albert A. 
Wilder, Thomas E. 
Welch, Fred L. 
Whitehurst, Harry V. 
Whitt, Clifton A. 
White, Walter A. 
Williams, Floyd E. 
Wheeler, Frank C. 



Captain, 

Leslie E. Harvey 
1st Lieutenant, 

Jesse E. George 
2d Lieutenant, 

Ernest S. Harvey 
Supply Sergeant, 

Lorenz, Ira V. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Gooch, John C. 
Sergeants : 

Lockhart, George A. 

Widmoyer, Fred B. 

Johnson, Thomas F. 

Murphy, Robert C. 

Jackson, Sherman N. 

Hart, Verne C. 

Spivcy, Ora M. 

Purton, John L. 
Corporals: 

Cowell, George S. 



COMPANY G 

Minneapolis 

Popham, Harry A. 

Spivey, Henry L. 

Ballance, Carl A. 

Hally, Maurice J. 

Stanford, Samuel T. 

Cowger, Irvin L. 

Boner, Boyd H, 

Davis, Roland E. 
Bugler, 

Berry, Ray W. 
Cooks : 

Dotson, Charles R. 

Shaw, George 
Mechanics : 

Trout, Elmer J. 

Muller, Victor W. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bennett, Freedoir 

Cross, Elsworth A. 

Davis, Thomas C. 

Ferguson, Guy W. 



Pilcher, Robert E. 
Smith, Henry H. 
Stout, Clarence M. 
Twombly, Roy 
Privates: 

Armstrong, Lee A. 
Baker, Homer A. 
Baker, George M. 
Barrett, John F. 
Baumgartner, David P 
Beach, Paul C. 
Beck, Arthur A. 
Becker, James R. 
Bending, Foster D. 
Bilsland, Joseph L. 
Bishop, Elson J. 
Boyle, John H. 
Boyle, Charles M, 
Butt, Chester J. 
Butterworth, William 
M. 



ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 



395 



Carpenter, Thomas P. 
Caughey, William M. 
Coleman, George J. 
Coleman, Thurston 
Collins, Jake J. 
Collister, William H. 
Conde, Arthur L. 
Cross, Alonzo F. 
Cross, Harry 
Conde, Lee E. 
Davies, George T. 
Delcamp, Boyd Ei. 
Dewey, Bert 
Domino, Fred F. 
Dorman, Bernie F. 
Dunham, Albert G. 
Dunlap, Robert J. 
Dykes, Clay W. 
Fdwards, Harry S. 
Fndicott, Clarence 
Felton, John B. 
Ferguson, Fugene R. 
Fletcher, Merton 
Flakes, James F. 
Gooch, Leslie L. 
Guise, Raymond C. 
Hall, Henry T. 
Harmon, John F. 
Harmon, Ralph F- 
Hartley, Roy 
Haren, Walter B. 
Heaton, Harry G. 
Heberly, Otis J. 
Hewes, William H. 
Hostetler, Carl O. 



Hudsonpillar, Clar- 
ence 

Kephart, Lloyd R. 

Kifer, Russell S. 

Kuhnle, Fred W. Jr. 

Laymon, Ralph F. 

Lewis, Frwin H. 

Lott, Neely 

Maholland, Ralph F- 

Marvin, Paul 

Matthews, Farl C. 

McCollough, Frank R. 

McGaugh, Lyle B. 

McGavran, Boyd B. 

McKee, Chester G. 

Melcher, Henry J. 

Miller, Jesse Z. 

Minner, Dow J. 

Moss, Charles A. 

Muller, Ira F. 

Murdick, Reed W. 

Murdock, Mearl R. 

Murphy, Flyde M. 

Myrick, Fugene B. 

Nelson, John H. 

Newell, Flmer F. 

Parsons, John H, 

Perkins, Doan F. 

Pilcher, Arthur C. 

Pilcher, Clifford L. 

Popliam, Glenn A. 

Postlethwaite, Glenn 
D. 

Potter, Forrest J. 

Press, Floyd S. 

Richards, Guy O. 



Rodgers, Charles M. 

Rogers, Lloyd V, 

Rose, Wallace 

Ruby, Chauncy F- 

Sampson, Rexford B. 

Sargent, John 

Shreve, Carl R. 

Shrouf, Lester B, 

Siegrist, Carl J. 

Smith, Hugh R. 

Snavely, Irvin N. 

Sommers, Ora C. 

Standau, WiUiam H. 

Starkey, Jesse G. 

Strait, Charles 

Sweeny, Joseph 

Swoyer, Henry A. 

Swoyer, John R. 

Teasley, Farl 

Thompson, Farl D. 

Townsend, Fsley 

Truitt, Verne F. 

Treadwell, Lee J. 

Vaughn, Fred G. 

Walden, Clarence B. 

Walden, Roy L. 

Ward, Frank R. 

Webster, Calvin S. 

Whipp, Russell B. 

Wickham, Clyde S. 

Woodman, Alvin H. 

Woods, Milton A. 
Losses, 
Discharged, 
1st Sergeant, 

Stout, Ray 



Captain, 

Fred H. Vaughn 
1st Lieutenant, 

William L. Brown 
2d Lieutenant 

Marshall W. Fulghum 
1st Sergeant, 

Crawford, George F. 
Supply Sergt. 

Robinson, Ivan R. 
Sergeants: 

Beck, Fugene H. 

Hodges, Will H. 

Pierpont, Raymond 

Rutledge, Cecil L. 

Wallack, Walter M. 
Corporals: 

Patterson, Robert S. 

Tharp, Lewis M. 

Constant, Wallace 

Stolp, Joy A. 

Schantz, Herbert S. 



COMPANY H 

WlNFIELD 

Barker, FHis T. 

Jenkins, Fred T. 

Kendall, Wayne 

Garrett, James S. 

Fndicott, Ralph 

Cunningham, Charles 
W. 

Wylie, Ernest J. 
Cooks: 

Cook, Israel U. 

Isongale, Darrell D. 

Isongale, Cecil H. 
Buglers: 

Kinkaid, Fmmot C. 

Holt, Joseoh E. 
Mechanic, 

Armstrong, Edward H. 
1st Class Privates: 

Barber, Lawrence L. 

Busby, Dean R. 

Dobbs, James V. 

Dow, William H. 

Owens, Cecil P. 



Robinson, Earl H. 
Schifferdecker, George 

W. 
Seaman, Homer G. 
Tolles, Henry W, 
Privates : 

Abel. Henry G. 
Allman, George V. 
Anderson, James M. 
Arnold, Edward R. 
Ault, Farl C. 
Baker, Harold A. 
Baker, Noble H. 
Baldwin, Charles W. 
Barringer, Oliver P. 
Bauer, Merle H. 
Bell, Carl H. 
Blakey, Victor V. 
Bourdette, Robert C. 
Bratcher, Ivel L. 
Burbsm, Fay F. 
Buss, Lloyd F. 
Carpenter, Lynn F. 



396 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Chattam, Carl C. 

Clark, Lewis A. 

Collins, Joseph H. 

Conley, Floyd A. 

Cornelison, Harvey R. 

Cornelison, Herbert 
A. 

Crisswell, John T. 

Crooks, Cecil E. 

Dillman, Jake S. 

Dunagan, John O. 

Kastin, Harvio 

Eiche, Frederick G. 

Faught, Lawrence 

Ferguson, Sidney F. 

Files, Lennis T. 

Fitch, Rupert O. 

Fleming, Thomas H. 

Foley, Mike H. 

Gardner, Chester W. 

Geoslin, Doris R. 

Gilford, Lon 
Gordon, Dewey O. 
Gresham, Henry H. 
Griffith, Glenn 
Hall, John H. 
Hartley, James A. 
Henry, Garfield R. 
Heatwood, Albert F. 
Hetherington, Marion 

L. 
High, Clarence E. 
Himes, Charles E. 
Hughes, William R. 
Ingalsbe, Lawson S. 



Jacobs, John C. 
JacoDs, Marvin 
Johnson, Irl 
Raster, Reuben F. 
Raster, Sleamon H, 
Kinsey, Albert 
Lawrence, William K. 
Lorton, Hugh C. 
Manhannah, Harry M. 
Martin, William L. 
May, Jesse E. 
McCoy, Ernest O. 
McCreary, Lou 
McCreary, Walter 
McVeil, Emery W. 
Miller, Harold L. 
Myers, Max E. 
Nicely, John W. 
Narris, Leonard H. 
Osborn, Bert C. 
Page, James H. 
Pinard, Eddie J. 
Pinion, William N. 
Powers, Oran E. 
Powers, William H. 
Prattsman, George E. 
Rader, Otis M. 
Randall, Eni;I A. 
Roberts, Cecil L. 
Robinson, Earl A. 
Rodman, John M. 
Ronsick, Doll D. 
Roseberry. Howard G. 
Rude, Robert L. 
Sanburn, Fred 



Sawyer, Lacey W. 

Schlotthauer, Jacob 

Sherwood, Hober C. 

Sieck, Bon A. 

Smith, Allen E. 

Smith, Paul S. 

Snyder, Dean F. 

vStocking, William E. 

Switser, Charles T. 

Thompson, Merville 
C. 

Thorpe, Elmer R. 

Tully, James B. 

Underwood, Virgil T. 

Vaughn, William A. 

Wallace, Leow H. 

Walton, Carrie E. 

Ward, Max W. 

Watkins. Herbert A. 

Wells, Thomas 

White, Llewellyn B. 

Whitt, Jesse E. 

Wimpey, Eugene F. 

Wortman, Harold S. 

Yarbrough, Glenn G. 

Young, Daniel 

Young, George W. 

Young, Roy D. 
Losses: 

Discharged 
Privates: 

Collins, Emanuel N, 

Dobbs, Glenn W. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Adam, Murel E. 



Captain, 

Earl A. House 
1st Lieutenant, 

Allender Swift 
2d Lieutenant, 

Pearl C. Ricord 
Supply Sergeant, 

Cerf, Charles 
Sergeants, 

Van' Y, Earl E. 

Rasnic, Clyde J. 

Jones, Donald P. 

Ellis, James R. 

Courrie, Paul E. 

Graham, George W. 

Hampton, Augustus 
A. 

Brownlee, James S. 
Corporals: 

Gilmore, Morris C. 

Joy, Will J. 

Covell, Tom G. 

Dwyer, Daniel M. 

Atterbury, Joseph H. 



COMPANY I 

Wichita 

Almond, Roger P. 

Fuller, Robert P. 

Smith, Charles J. 

Key, Shirley D. 

Kiersey, Chester A. 
Cook. 

Nichols, Alvin W. 
1st Class Privates: 

Avery, Earl P. 

Covell, Chester W. 

Lyon, Harold J. 

Taylor, Arthur S. 

VanWagoner, Geo. 
W. 

Wertz, Percy J. 
Privates: 

Adkerson, Jakie 

Allen, Guy F. 

Anderson, Fred M. 

Arnold, John H. 

Auker, Burley B. 

Barton, Horace C. 

Barkhurst, Earl J. 

Belford, Karl 



Bentley, Anzel E. 
Blafichard, Merlin P, 
Boyd, Harrison L. 
Bridwell, Walter C. 
Brown, Carroll P. 
Brown, Milo C. 
Bundy, James I. 
Clark, Henry E. 
Clark, Thomas F. 
Clegg, Fines N. 
Colville, John A. 
Colville, William B. 
Cunningham, William 

\V. 
Cusick, Eugene 
Dehner, Albert B. 
Dennis, George A. 
DeVore, Albert A. 
DeVore, Elmer B. 
Doll, Claude B. 
Dorie, William F. 
Eastin, Jess A. 
Elliott, James V. 
Fay, Frank S. 



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Frazee, Harry W. 
Gaines, Henry P. 
Gard, Edward E). 
Gillham, Phillip G. 
Glover, Clyde W. 
Graham, Edward 
Greenwood, Harold W. 
Greenwood, Lloyd D. 
Grover, Carl H. 
Haddox, McHenry B. 
Hamrich, Guy 
Harris, William B. 
Harrison, Everett S. 
Harvell, John M. 
Holms, Lewis E. 
Helvey, Charles W. 
Herrick, Harry F. 
Hess, Loyd S. 
Hormel, Lee J. 
Hudson, Thomas C. 
Jennings, Austin P. 
Jones, Ben E. 
Junod, Louis J. 
Jones, Charles M. 
Kaplan, Harry 
Kennedy, Milton J. 
Koons, James F. 
Kruse, Otto P. 
McCarroll, John C. 
McCoy, Leo E. 



McCullough, Frank H, 
McMillen, Carl B. 
McPeek, Lester R. 
Maher, Richard D. 
Melick, Allan H, 
Messer, Charles L. 
Minter, Chas. O. M. 
Mitchell, Samuel R. 
Morris, Leo E. 
Passell, John B. 
Payton, Jess 
Perryman, Floyd E. 
Petticord, Harold H. 
Pickrell, Todd R. 
Prohart, Lawrence 
Prothero, Joe H. 
Purinton, Wallace L. 
Quirk, Leo 
Ratcliflf, Carter E. 
Reeside, Delbert C. 
Reynolds, Ernest R. 
Roberts, Earl M, 
Rodwell, Joe A. 
Rowsy, Walter W. 
Sauer, Grant L. 
Schafer, August 
Scales, Charles L. 
Seamans, Fred E. 
Shank, Harvey L. 
Shilling, Rudolph D. 



Simms, Thomas M. 
Shinliver, Vinton C. 
Sloan, William E. 
Smith, Fred A. 
Smith, Harold I. 
Stice, William 
Stoll, Frank M. 
Taylor, Edward J. 
Teter, Earl F. 
Theroulde, Alfred O. 
Titus, Joseph 
Todd, Charles T. 
Trego, Claude E. 
Tyson, Logan R. 
Twyman, Fred J. 
Walterschield, Henry 

W. 
Walton, Paul D. 
Whiting, Fred H. 
Whitton, Fred W. 
Wiley, Thomas L. 
Wilson, Albert 
Wine, Arthur G. 
Wood, Elbert R. 
Wood, Harry G. 
Wood, Walter B. 
Woodward, John J. 
Yaple, Claude N. 
Yeager, Clarence P. 
Young, Henry W. 
Whipple, Tracey 



Captain, 

Renelda T. Fry 
1st Lieutenant, 

Rex S. Gilmore 
2d li'-utenant, 

Harry M. Ball 
1st Sergeant, 

Dabney, Earl A. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Dunbar, Lowell 
Supply Sergeant, 

Campbell, Joseph 
Sergeants: 

McClelland, James 

McKay, Donald 

McBride, Roy 

Backus, Lon 

O'Brian, Ira 

Church, Roy B. 

Miller, William H. 

Becker, Leod D. 
Corporals: 

McGinley, Victor D. 

Child, Charles 

Hertwick, John P. 

Bateman, James D. 

Walters, William 

Howard, Floyd T. 



COMPANY K 

Independence 

Dabney, Charles J. 

Brighton, Harold 

Synder, Clarence 

Cripps, Warren A. 

Nichols, Byron D. 

Engel, William 

Hunter, Donald 

Smith, E. Erwin 

Mather, David E. 

Bailer, Earl 

Sewell, Harry 
Mechanics: 

Elliott, Thomas B. 

Orton, Carl 
Cooks : 

Haines, Charles 

McClary, James M. 

Currey, Claud C. 
Buglers : 

Herron, Connie R. 

Smith, Alva 
1st Class Privates: 

Adam, Chester H. 

Bump, Ronald A. 

Boice, Harold 

Bramer, Harry A. 

Carter, Clarence D. 

Chandler, Charles A. 



Damon, Samuel T. 
Daugherty, Tom 
Garcia, Joseph 
Hase, Eugene E. 
Hughes, Arthur E. 
Hughes, Harry E. 
Hertwick, Charlea I. 
Jacoby, James F. 
Johnson, Shelby 
Lang, Albert H. 
Lohner, Joseph H. 
Mallonee, Leo R. 
Otterstotter, Jos. 
Spayd, John R. 
Staloup, Kenneth H. 
Terry, Floid 
Tucker, James E. 
Truax, Alva G. 
Woodman, James H. 
Walters, Mark 
Wakers, Clyde L. 
Williams, Arnold D. 
Privates : 

Andrews, Harold R. 
Arnold, Joe 
Atkinson, Calvin O. 
Boyle, David A. 
Babb, Verlin 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Blain, Howard W. 
Brasier, Frank 
Bircher, Gentry 
Bodine, George O. 
Biggs, James W. 
Brock, Chas. B. 
Brown, Horace C, 
Bean, Roy L. 
Crimmel, Henry W. 
Cecil, Neil M, 
Crowe, Robert L. 
Coy, Clarence E. 
Carter, Harold 
Cook, Harry D. 
Chauteau, Fred D. 
Chapman, Lendal D. 
Canney, Chas. F. 
Debo, Jerry 
Fppley, Glen O. 
Fckley, Bennie 
Fvans, Charles H. 
Fstes, Charles F- 
Foster, Raymond 
Gurtney, Andrew J. 
Gallup, Otis O. 
Guarnee, John H. 
Garner, Lonie 



Graves, Peter 
Guard, Harry 
Geren, Charley 
Goodson, Agle B. 
Hutchins, Howard L. 
Helton, Claude L. 
Harlow, Albert M. 
Higson, Fred 
Hicks, Clyde 
Jones, Walter W. 
Jones, Lester 
Johnson, Joseph F. 
Johnson, James F. 
Kennedy, Fred 
Kerr, Clarence C. 
Krone, Jay 
Kinslow, William 
Latta, Ralph H. 
Lewis, Ferell J. 
McGuire, Will S. 
Meskee, George G. 
Murray, Fwing S. 
Murphey, Loy L. 
McLaughhn, George 
Morgan, Alford F. 
Mudge, Carl F. 



Newton, Frank C. 
O'Keefe, Thomas 
Owen, James F. 
Osburn, Curtis 
Philipe, Al 
Philo, Chester 
Pyle, George 
Peneazok, John 
Rhodes, Walter A, 
Reeves, James 
Rusher, Loy L. 
Ringle, Foster G. 
Smith, Leonard F. 
Slater, Roy W. 
Shadday, Charles 
Stone, Rolla A. 
Thrapp, Roy 
Thiess, William L. 
Vance, Herbert 
Warner, Robert M. 
Woolam, Farl 
Wilson, Walter L- 
Weber, William N. 
Wilson, Lee F. 
Wassam, Paul B. 
Whitten, Samuel H. 
Warner, Alford A. 



COMPANY L 
Emporia 



Captain, 

Clayton J. Patterson 
1st Lieutenant, 

Arthur J. Fricsson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Homer U. Laird 
1st Sergeant, 

Schwartz, Walter A. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Burt, Charles W. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Hartenbower, Grover 
C. 
Sergeants : 

Trusler, Victor T. 

Meairs, Rufus C. 
Corporals : 

Steckel, William 

Sheridan, Phillip 

Anderson, John M. 

Christensen, Oscar C. 
Cooks: 

Kappelmann, Otto T. 

Waite, Frwin R. 

Swarner, Frank 
Bugler, 

Mosley, Ira 
1st Class Privates: 

Brier. Arthur E. 

Briley, Carl P. 

Dewey, Lynn M. 



DeWitt, Harold 
Fry, Andrew F. 
Green, Churchill 
Portwood, Bruce T. 
Son, Flmer 
Wagley, Harold K. 
Privates: 

Ainsworth, Walter 
Anderson, Clare J. 
Andrews, Walter PI. 
Austin, Glenn R. 
Bass, Howard W. 
Beard, Owen 
Bell, Russell L- 
Blackwood, Merle A. 
Blackwood, Virgil H. 
Bond, Morritt 
Boyle, Walter J. 
Brandner, Fred A. 
Brown, Harry M. 
Brown, William R. 
Campbell, Guy B. 
Casstevens, Farl 
Christensens, Farl 
Colburn, Willard C. 
Cottrill, Floyd B. 
Cozine, Frank K. 
Crabtree, Jake L. 
Grain, George R. 
Crist, Frank 
Crites, Jesse C. 



Crotts, Glenn F. 

Dietz, William F. 

Dainey, William J. 

Donaldson, Arthur W. 

Downey, John L. 

Dunham, Myron 
Francis 

Drury, Floyd 

Edwards, Hugh F. 

Filinger, Charles J. 

Foster, Jay 

Foster, Silas F. 

French, John W. 

Gadbery, Arthur R. 

Giddings, Chester C. 

Gifford, Harley W. 

Gillispie, Arthur G. 

Glaze, Theodore 

Grimwood, Thomas J. 

Gress, Louis H. 

Hampton, Henry M. 

Hassinger, Geo. V. 

Hassinger, S. Farl 

Haworth, Fred J. 

Hobbs, Gerald Gor- 
don 

Horn, Edgar F. 

Hosley, Chas. R. 

Houghton, Ray 

Hughes, Marion H. 

Hunt, Chas. W. 



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Ireland, Chas. E. 

Johnson, Russell W. 

Jones, Linn P. 

Kendall, Chas. E). 

Kesler, Chas. E. 

Kimble, Herman 

Knowles, Edward 

Layton, Elmer J. 

Lockwood, Lawrence 
E. 

Logan, J. Austin 

Lowther, Eugene T. 

Lynn, Francis 

McCracken, Jesse E. 

Madison, Clarence J. 

Madison, Roy L. 

Madison, Stanley C. 

Mastin, Owen P. 

Meyer, Clarence L. 

Meyer, Elmer 

Minner, Ernest C. 

Monroe, Jesse Rod- 
ney 

Morris, Clifford 

Myers, Harry A. 

Nelson, Richard R. 



Noakes, Chas, C. 
Norris, Oren N. 
Oakley, Lester C. 
Olberding, Louie A. 
Pennington, Thomas 

Petty, John W. 
Pierson, Lea R. 
Posvar, Edmund 
Potter, David B. 
Prescott, Russell M. 
Purdy, Leslie L- 
Randall, Lewis W. 
Rapp, Alfred L. 
Resser, Joseph R. 
Ridgway, Merle 
Riegle, Roy Wilfcrd 
Riggs, Clarence E. 
Rinard, Bernard I. 
Roberts, Richard 
Rohman, William C. 
Rumford, Elbert A. 
Runnels, Vernon 
Ryman, Ben F. 
Schaible, Harold M. 
Schoeck, C. Leonard 
Schoeck, Harry A. 



Sellers, Leslie R. 

Shaft, Elvis C. 

Sidener, Marion M. 

Simpson, Chester C. 

Simpson, Otto E. 

Smith, James M. 

Smith, Joyce D. 

Solander, Howard D. 

Spangler, Joseph E. 

Spivey, William L. 

Stackley, Christie 

Stevenson, Charles E. 

Stites, O. Russel 

Strom, Leonard O. 

Wahl, Chas. J. 

Williamson, Randolph 

Wilson, James A. 

Wisler, Chas. S. 

Wood, Wayne 

Zieber, Warren 
Loss: 

Discharged : 
Sergeant, 

Richards, John S, 
Private 1st Class, 

Cain, Louis A. 



Captain, 

Roy W. Perkins 
1st Lieutenant, 

Ward P. Holly 
2d Lieutenant, 

Willard J. Shipe 
1st Sergeant, 

Richardson, Andrew J. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Biggart, William W. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Wagstaff, Fred M. 
Sergeants: 

Lill, Cycril L. 

Showman, Samuel E. 

Dick, Harlow G. 

Lindblom, Ralph A. 

Morriman, Lewis 

Brill, Daniel P. 

Thompson, Eugene 
W. 
Corporals : 

Anderson, Carl 

Doran, William 

Young, Charlie 

Carroll, William 

Carruthers, Roy 

Mencher, John 

Pitts, VolHe W. 

Donaldson, Joe F. 

Moran, Fred 

Barnett, Earl B. 



COMPANY M 

Salina 

Peterson, James C. 

Metzger, Fred 

Lightfoot, Ernest 

Crosby, Amos 

Smith, Sam B. 

Price, Irvin M. 
Cooks : 

Shephard, Luda E. 

Smith, Van B. 

Walden, Allen C. 
1st Class Privates: 

Adams, Clarence E. 

Barnett, Sam 

Bell, Rowan J. 

Bennett, Merrill W. 

Brassfield, William P. 

Cannon, Paul A. 

Carson, Hobart R. 

Chambers, John L. 

Draher, Leland C. 

Flinn, Edwin G. 

Freeman, Claude 

Gentry, Vincent W. 

Hilligoss, Claude 

Kohr, Roscoe E. 

Lindholm, Enfred G. 

Maloney, Jack E. 

McDowell, James C. 

Murphey, Charley A. 

Markham, Harry R. 

Pratt, Glenn A. 

Snyder, James 



Smith, Edgar L. 
Smith, Chas. O. 
Spence, Fred L. 
Taylor, Frank O. 
Watson, Mark L. 
West, Hedford S. 
Privates : 

Akins, Malcolm 
Alley, Lawrence J. 
Alexander, Frederick 

N. 
Anderson, William 
Atkinson, Clarence 
Bartels. Alfred B. 
Benedict, Willard H. 
Bolby, Claude E. 
Bolby, James 
Bolby, Maurice A. 
Borst, Frank C. 
Boyles, Arthur L. 
Brimlow, Geo. F. 
Butler, Eugene G. 
Davis, Lawrence E. 
Davis, Lee 
Ditto, Dorsa J. 
Durant, Pearl Russell 
Etheridge, John A. 
Fry, Leonard M. 
Fuller, Will J. 
Fuller, William H. 
Garrison, Roy L. 
Gottberg, John Fred 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Graham, I^ugene S. 
Griggs, John S. 
Haley, Marvin 
Hed, Clarence A. 
Hickman, Fred H. 
Hite, Hickman 
Hopkins, William M. 
Ilulbert, Karl O. 
Hurst, John H. C. 
Hutton, Asa A. 
Ingram, Lloyd E. 
Israel, John R. 
Johnson, Webster L. 
Knox, Andrew R. 
Kreuger, Richard A. 
Larkins, James A. 
Lewis, Frederick P. 
Lindsay, John C, 
Livingston, Edward 

Malone, Walter C. 
Manning, Lauren T. 
Maxwell, Walter L. 
Metcalf, Ival A. 
Miller, Doster 
Miller, Harry R. 



Miller, Hugh J. 
Moody, James 
Musser, Joe D. 
Nichols, Chester H. 
Oberg, John E. 
O'Malley, Ed. D. 
Ordway, Guy O. 
Orr, Wilbert E. 
Parkinson, Thomas G. 
Patterson, Richard L. 
Peake, William 

McKinley 
Pendergrass, Ernest 

L. 

Putsch, Roy 
Reardon, Daniel P. 
Reardon, Frederick 

M. 
Read, Edison 
Rose, Leroy A. 
Roseman, Aaron H. 
Roseman, Clair J. 
Rider, Bert A. 
Sanborn, Seth H. 
Schumaker, Ernest 
Seavey, August G. 



Seavey, Park N. 
Sommers, Clayton S. 
Sparks, Albert A, 
Spencer. Herbert 
Stahl, Emmett J. 
Stanfield, Paul A. 
Stauffer, WaUer D. 
Stigall, Charley H. 
Storer, Evert A. 
Sutcliffe, Geo. A. M, 
Todd, John E. 

Toner, Leonard L. 

Vanatta, Milford P. 

Vaughn, Clyde J. 

Weaver, Vernon 

Whaley, William E. 

Whiteford, Guy L. 

Wilson, Clyde 

Wilson, Robert S. 

Wilkers, Raymond 

Miner, George D. 
Attached : 

Jones, Lester V. 

Tart, Gerald A. 

Newcomb, Wayne C. 



SANITAEY DETACHMENT 



Major, 

Charles S. Evans 
Captain, 

Charles M. Seiver, 
1st Lieutenants: 
Charles C. Hawke 
Walter H. Kirkpatrick 
1st Class Sergeant, 
Gregg, Harry S. 
Sergeants: 

Freark, Joyce 
Glahn, Harry 
Wilson, Glen 



1st Class Privates: 
Browning, Claude 
Browning, Frank 
Davis, Warren 
Dicker, Ralph W. 
Dressier, Elmer L- 
Evans, Roger 
Glahn, Eugene 
Hale, George 
Miller, William L. 
Palmateer, Walter 
Pine, Ralph E. 
Watkins, LeRoy 
Willis, George H. 

Privates : 

Draper, William 



Dunn, William 
Evans, Paul 
Kirchofif, Arthur L. 
McDonald, Andrew 
ISIcKee, Gordon E. 
McKittrick, Edward 
Mifflin, Dee 
Moore, Howard 
Ramsey, Clay 
Slaughter, Robert 
Smith, Harry R. 
Starrett, Joe 
Stevens, Walter J. 
Trackwell, Jesse 
Uhrlaub, Ernst A. 



DETACHMENT UNASSIGNED, RECRUITS SECTION 



Privates: 

Hall, Levi M. 
Halley, James W. 
Hammer, Richard S. 
Hoffman, William M. 
Brady, John J. 
Burdick, Chester 
Irvin, Robert E. 
Jennings, James M. 



Sand, Roy E. 
Skiles, Charles E. 
Tedder, Bryan E. 
Turton, Humphrey 

H. 
Vermillion, Louis E. 
Warner, Aquilla R. 
West, Hershal R. 



Wilson, James 
Wilcox, Paul J. 
Woolley, Harry "SI. 
Winton, Geo. L. 
Davison, Ernest D. 
Eals, Philip S. 
Jacobs, Henry W. 
Patton, Renwick M. 
Taylor, Howard E. 



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THIRD REGIMENT, KANSAS INFANTRY 

FIELD AND STAFF 

TOPEKA 



1st Lieut, and Bn. Adj. 
Paul C. Botkin 



Colonel, Major, 

Willie McD. Rowan, Albert H. Krause 

T- . Commanding Major, 1st Lieut, and Bn. Adj. 

Alex^A Shar"^ Thomas R. Campbell Hugh B. Dudley 

Major, ' 1st Lieut, and Chaplain, 1st Lieut, and Bn. Adj. 

Baxter D. McClain Myron S. Collins John B. Sharp 



HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

TOPEKA 



Captain, 

John J. Haskell 
Regimental Sgt. Major, 

Cahill, Frank P. 
Bn. Sgt. Maj.: 

Brier, Jarnes M., Jr. 

Roberts, Frank M. 

Pitts, Albert Dudley 
Band Leader, 

Morse, Theodore 
Mess Sgt., 

Quackenbush, Der- 
wood F. 
Band Sgt., 

Crouch, Alfred D. 
Sergeant, 

Parry, Frank H. 
Privates : 

Abell, Robert F. 

Adams, Henry W. 

Ball, Charles O. 

Bannon, Howard W. 



Black, Roy W. 
Bowen, Leroy F. C. 
Brooks, Devon F. 
Bruner, James 
Cambern, Leon J. 
Carter, Alfred F. 
Crashaw, William L- 
Drum, Robert A. 
Dutton, Lane A. 
Dubreuil, Joseph F. 
Fwan, Philip T. 
Fleming, David Wal- 
ter 
Fleming, James R. 
Foshay, Garret A. 
Fowler, Leroy J. 
Gaston, Dewey G. 
Greenman, Lloyd B. 
Greenlee, Samuel Rae 
Haage, William R. 
Hanstine, Paul PI. 
Hart, Donald R. 
Hartley, Minor Joe 
Henderson, William R. 



IlifT, Theodore L. 
King, Frnest F. 
Knopf, Roby ]. 
Neville, Fred" 
Nininger, Ora F. 
McCarter, Arthur 
Miles, Marion 
Miller, Karl D. 
Morris, Harold G. 
Mitchell, Ralph F. 
Quiett, William F. 
Royer, Harold J. 
Smith, Chas. J. 
Stitt, Farl D. 
Stitt, Orby J. 
Stockings, Clyde L- 
Towles, Roy S. 
True, Larkin M. 
Vernon, Leo R. 
Wagner, Francis F. 
Wheeler, Paul R. 
Wolfe, Fugene 
Zimmerman, Henry 
W. 



MACHINE GUN COMPANY 

lOLA 



Captain, 

William F. Payton 
1st Lieutenant, 

Richard T. Wilson 
2nd Lieutenant, 

George J. Hunt 

Lewis O. Northrup 
1st Sergeant, 

Fnfield, Alfred R. 
Supply Sgt. 

Scott, Fwing C. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Barber, Fzra T. 
Sergeants: 

Teeters, Lloyd L. 

Beck, Harold W. 

Bean, Louis G. 

Dickerson, James G. 



Vance, Chas. P. 

Ross, Fdgar B, 

Bennett, Webster S. 

Frovert, Frederick F. 
Corporals : 

Denton, Fred L. 

Doggett, Cleo O. 

Hair, James L. 

Pierce, Frank O. 

Gard, Fsmond 

Coman, James G. 

Dewey, William M. 

O'Flaherty, John F. 
Cooks : 

Miller, Claude 

Miller, Farl 
Plorseshoer : 

Ballard, Roy G. 



Mechanics : 

Womack, Chas. M. 
Manthey, Will A. 

Musicians : 

Newton, Herbert F. 

Robinson, Kenneth M. 
1st Class Privates: 

Boman, Ralph G. 

Daigh, Clifford L. 

Grover, George M. 

Nickols, Lloyd O. 

Jordan, Olin L. 

Kennedy, Carl S. 

Norton, Fverette C. 

Tippis, LeRoy 

Smith, James F. 

Malcolm, Canby H.' 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Privates : 
Ard, David 
Bell, Otey 
Brouillard, Chas. E. 
Baker, Walter J. 
Brouillard, Albert L- 
Bolin, Francis M. 
Cummins, Chas. C. 
Fishes, Chas. C. 
Farren, Glenwood G. 
Hoffman, Geo. L. 
Hale, Guy W. 
Heaton, Claude L. 



Captain, 

James F. Going 
2nd Lieutenant, 

George K. Woodward 
Reg. Supply Sgt., 

Blaine, William J. 

Bair, Homer R. 
1st Sergeant, 

Thorne, Donald 
Horseshoer, 

EJmry, Elmer J. 
Saddler, 

Reed, Geo, A. 
Privates : 

Anderson, Harold G. 



Captain, 

Edgar H. Dale 
1st Lieutenant, 

Blanton U. Bently 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Charles W. Barndollar 
1st Sergeant, 

Trickett, Dean 
Mess Sergeant, 

Rees, Farle F. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Elliott, David S. 
Sergeants: 

Kiddoo, Richard E. 

Halsey, Ray N, 

Brunner, Alfred C. 

Burkhall, Walter H. 

Jensen, Carl O. 

Hickman, Walter C. 

Bingham, Delmore L. 

Bradbury, Frank W. 
Corporals: 

Dillon, Keith 

Andrews, Rayraa L. 



Hoke, Oscar F. 
Kirkpatrick, Jesse H. 
Krause, David L. 
Kane, Oscar K. 
Latimer, Burney F. 
Lee, Elmer 
Lenhart, Wendell O. 
Lindsley, Chas. H. 
Long, Lloyd E. 
Middleton, Carl S. 
Milne, Dell P. 
Morrison, Lenard T. 
Marple, Earl L- 

SUPPLY COMPANY 

TOPEKA 

Benson, Loren R. 
Blake, Hololm L. 
Bonjour, Ira S. 
Bragg, Henry A. 
Brake, Carey G. 
Corbin, Harold W. 
Davis, John E. 
Dennis, Paul 
Dorcas, Everett H. 
Forth, ArUe M, 
Garland, William A. 
Greenland, Donald C. 
Grant, Wilber O. 
Harper, Thaddeus S. 
Hazlett, John L. 

COMPANY A 

COFFEYVILLE 

Swearingen, Carl E- 

Pickering, Ben C. 

Meeks, Clyde 

Miller, Claude E. 

Wills, Carl I. 

Jones, Robert H. 

Askren, Bert 

Piner, George W. 

Cosier, Raymond E. 

Van Winkle, Earle B. 

Miller, Arthur M. 

Love, Blanton D. 

Shaubell, Harry D. 

Dana, Merle H. 

Fulks, John M. 
Mechanics: 

Martin, Verne 

Curran, Lawrence A. 
Cooks: 

Arnold, Clarence 

Walton, Grover C. 

Vermehren, William 
H. 



Myers, John R. 
McCoy, Scott C. 
Noble, Donald J. 
Parker, Madison J. 
Ritter, Archie D. 
Raisch, John M. 
Rutherford, Lloyd P. 
Sicks, Wilbur A. A. 
Seals, Lionel A. 
Straub, Peter W. 
Sicks, Elsa C. 
Walker, George S. 
Waugh, William F. 



Henry, Scott S. 
Holdren, Emmett G. 
Humphreys, James 
Humphreys, John E. 
Jacques, Geo. L. 
Johnson, Donald W. 
Johnston, Walter F. 
Jones, Fred R. 
Keene, Arthur W. 
Langan, Joseph P. 
Mentzer, Harry A. 
Nordgren, Axel B. 
Russell, John V. 
Stanton, Geo. S. 
Watson, Fountain W. 
Zeek, Floyd L. 



Musicians: 
, Metcalf, Seward E. 

Prashaw, Cecil J. 
1st Class Privates: 

Benefiel, Lelan J. 

Boom, Samuel J. 

Bricker, Raymond W. 

Bryson, Geo. W. 

Callow. Don C. 

Gathers, Chas. P. Jr. 

Clark, Hugh W. 

Dooley, Floyd C. 

Giles, Floyd L. 

Gillespey, Walter A. 

Gray, Richard L- 

Harris, John D. 

Herrick, Ben F. 

Huddleston, Geo. R. 

Long, Roy D. 

MacHatton, Joe 

Matteson, Leo V. 

Nelson, Geo. E. 

Parrott, James D. 

Perry, Alva B. 



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403 



Renner, Floyd E. 
Rice, Harold S. 
Smith, Herbert E. 
Swan, Carlton, S. 
Trough, lyloyd 
Vaughan, William 
Walton, Ellis P. 
Wise, Robert Iv. 
Privates: 

Allen, James M. 
Anderson, Abraham 

B. 
Baker, Ernest H. 
Benefiel, Oral 
Bentley, Bruce M. 
Boston, Levi S. 
Brannan, Sam 
Bucher, Barney 
Bucher, Tilden 
Callow, James G. 
Carrington, Homer 
Cline, Dave A. 
Cobb, Chas. R. 
Combs, Joel A. 
Cotton, Harry C. 
Cribbs, Arthur L. 
Crocker, Clyde T. 
Cundiflf. Roy E. 
Davis, Chas. B. 
Davis, Harold W. 
Duckworth, Roy E. 
Elmore, Lester R. 
Fisher, Guy E. 
Fitch. Alfred C. 



Foshe, Jim M. 
Fuller, James C. 
Fuzzell, David W. 
Gillespie, Ward W. 
Glidewell, Marion D. 
Grady, George E. 
Graves, Theo. R, Jr. 
Griffith, Jess L. 
Grober, Walter O. 
Haddon, Carl J. 
Hall, Orley L. 
Hancock, William L. 
Hanes, James B. 
Higginbotham, James 

H. 
Higgins, Edward M. 
Highley, Elmer N. 
Howe, Robert W. 
Hutson, Rufus H. 
Jewell, Frank 
Jones, Edgar L. 
Jones, Robert P. 
Jundy, Dewey 
Kindley, Field E. 
Lape, Earl D. 
Latta, James 
Latta, John 
Livingstone, Arthur D. 
Long, Baden H. 
Main, Harry L- 
Martin, Samuel J. 
McGee, Chas. E. 
Myers, Lee J. 



Page, Harold R. 

Papen, James D. 

Papen, Willard L. 

Patterson, Claude A. 

Pearson, Francis W. 

Pevehouse, John D. 

Pierson, William A. 

Ray, Montie W. 

Renner, Oluf G. 

Richardson, Roy S. 

Richardson, Guy D. 

Roberts, William C. 

Rogers, Ernest H. 

Sargent, Frank H. 

Scholes, Richard C. 

Seaton, Orville J. 

Sevier, Ernest 

Smith, Alden 

Spurlock, James B, 

Stephens, Max S. 

Straub, Joseph P. 

Sumner, Earl E. 

Tabor, Calvin A. 

Tucker, Max A. 

Vanderford, Earl E. 

Vanvsdoll, Seef 

Wade, John A. 

Wallen, Henry J. 

White, Guy L. 

White, Roy W. 

Wilkus, John P. 
Attached. 
Private, 

Clingan, Hughett 



Captain, 

Guy N. Walling 
1st Lieutenant, 

William A. Smith 
2d Lieutenant, 

Clinton W. Kanaga 
1st Sergeant, 

Blevins, Jesse J. 
Corporals: 

Fish, Enoch E. 

Burnaa, George 

Vendel, Joseph J. 

Larner, Leland S. 

Elevens, Theodore R. 

Rindon, Harry L. 

Leach, Arnold F. 
Mechanic, 

Clark, Floyd 
Buglers: 

Trapp, Merle A. 

Marshall, Marlin W. 
1st Class Privates: 

Gutschenritter, Samuel 
B. 

Hoffman, John H. 



COMPANY B 

OSKALOOSA 

Jenkins, Roscoe D. 
Kimmel, William M. 
Privates: 

Abbott, Dean R. 
Anderson, Alba W. 
Austin, Robert A. 
Bacon, Elmer E. 
Bateman, Lemuel E. 
Barackman, Crawford 

K. 
Barackman, Donnel 
Blevins, William E. 
Bliss, Stanley E. 
Blockwies, "Birt 
Boehme, Birt 
Bousfield, Geo. H. 
Brandon, Benjamin F- 
Brandon, Francis 
Brann, Everett W. 
Brey, Marlin 
Brown, Ira C. 
Burnam, William M. 
Carson, Robert O. 
Chance, Benjamin H. 
Conley, Loren 



Cooper, David, Jr. 
Coons, Kenneth A. 
Davis, Claud 
Davis, Lester M. 
Davis, Lewis E. 
Davis, William L. 
Donning, Leonard C. 
Douglas, Joseph B. 
Douglas, John J. 
Duncan, Elmer E. 
Early, Walter R. 
Edwards, James H. 
Ferris, Earl A. 
Fletcher, Chas. W. 
Fletcher, Clair C. 
Fletcher, Louis 
Ford, Glee A. 
Frantz, Donald 
Frazier, Omer O. 
Frendle, Leonard D. 
Gibson, Lucien P. 
Gibson, Perry F. 
Clock, John H. 
Greeley, Chas. E. 
Guay, John 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Gutschenritter, Tom 

C. 
Hagen, Tony C. 
Hegendeffer, Ernest 

F. 
Hammond, William 
Harr, Lloyd T. 
Harrison, Benjamin C. 
Hargis, DeWitt M, 
Hawkins, Floyd J. 
Hawkins, John L- 
Hays, John W. 
Hesser, Fred S. 
Hudson, Leslie A. 
Hudson, William B. 
Hull, Geo. W. 
Hull, Ralph W. 
Johnson, Enoch E. 
Johnson, William C. 
Karnes, Roland R. 
Keeling, James A. 
Kilmer, James T. 
Lancaster, Richard R. 
Langley, Arbie F. 
Langley, Ernest L. 
Lake, Artie C. 
Larkins, William J. 
Lillie, Homer F. 



Loveland, Floyd 
Mack, Arthur L. 
Mantin, Wilson M. 
Mayall, Claud 
Moore, Leslie L. 
Morton, Jason S. 
Miller, Grover C. 
Miller, Virgil W. 
Mott, Roy A. 
Neill, Robert N. 
Nichols, Ralph N. 
Olmstead, Hugh 
Owen, Albert A. 
Owen, Wade R. 
Parker, Philip 
Paull, Clinton R. 
Paulson, Roy 
Pottorf, Frank A. 
Pottorf, Fred G. 
Pratt, William M. 
Quanev, Lawrence F. 
Radcliff, George D. 
Ramsev, David W. 
Renfro, David E. 
Rettig, Fred W. 
Robertson, Leo W. 
Robohn, Walter E. 
Robbins, Lawrence B. 
Rogers, Clyde J. 



Scales, Lester E. 
Schultz, Everett 
Segraves, Victor L. 
Shively, Chas. W. 
Shumard, Arthur E. 
Sill, Richard I. 
Taylor, James R. 
Vandruff, Grover 
Vendell, William F. 
Vigus, Frank M. 
Walter, Austin M. 
Walters, Frank 
Wheeler, James R. 
Wheeler, William W. 
Williamson, Sherman 

H. 
Wind, Fred J. 
Winrick, Clarence F. 
Winters, Roy C. 
Witteck, John F. 
Yearout, Thomas F. 
Young, Clark 
Young, Karle C. 
Atkins, Lloyd W. 
Brown, Delmar D. 
Woods, William J. 
Rosenblum, Joe 
Ribinson, Elwood S. 



Captain, 

William H. Perrigo 
1st. Lieutenant, 

Samuel A. Daugherty 
2d Lieutenant, 

Charles O. Hall 
Mechanics: 

Petit, Harry 

Kerby, Martin P. 
Cooks: 

Gouin, Forrest E. 

Gaunt, Herman 

Anderson, George W. 
Buglers: 

Allm, Noble 

McGarry, James 
Privates: 

Arnold, Harry L. 

Archbold, Geo. L. 

Arveson. Archie L. 

Asher, Gene L. 

Anderson, Grover 

Allen, Leslie 

Bently, William E. 

Brady, Raymond F. 

Bauer, Leon 

Brazil, Chester G. 

Bedford, Chas. E. 

Bassham, James C. 

Beason, Henry M. 

Barrltt. Harry D. 



COMPANY C 

Junction City 

Briddell, William S. 
Ceas, Lester W. 
Clark, John C. 
Collins, Pat P. 
Collins, Walter 
Cox, Curtis 
Gushing, Thos. L. 
Delaney, Timothy W. 
Diegleman, Joseph M. 
Dietrich, Fred 
Dietrich, William A. 
Davenport, Leslie J. 
Dem.psey, Charles 
Dean, George A. 
Benty, Edward 
Ellzey, Weslev A. 
Estes, John _ W. 
Egleston, Richard 
Engler, Louis K. 
Folck, Lilburn P., Jr. 
Fentem, Harry 
Fox, Chas. W. V. 
Foley, Timothy J., Jr. 
Ford, Loyd E. 
Finney, Frank A. 
Glenn, Arthur D. 
Grant, Richard M. 
Gormley, Earl C. 
Grattan, William M. 
Hull, Warren 
Hines, William D. 



Henry, George J. 
Huitt, Edward 
Hartong, Harry E. 
Huey, Archie 
Hurley, Daniel T. 
Halfpenny, Gordon H. 
Hunt, George F. 
Holterman, Emil J. 
Haag, Tom S._ 
Harding, David 
Haddon, William 
Hood, Martin 
Insley, William E. 
Jerrard, Clyde H. 
Jennings, Ray L. 
Jones, Earl L. 
Jones, Odis K. 
Johnston, Harold 
Johnson, Virgil H. 
Kelley, Leo E. 
Kelley, Paul M. 
Kennedy, Clarence D. 
Kerr. Paul 
Knerr, Clare S. 
Kipple, Ray G. 
Leach, Thomas 
Leone, Felice 
McCormick, Thomas 

P. 
McTntyre, Harry H. 
McKinney, Earl H. 



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Maher, Charley W. 

Mallon, Geo. W. 

Marcy, Fred H. 

Melching, Roy C. 

Miller, Henry O. 

Murphy, Howard P. 

Nelson, Gerald 

Nixon, Guy 1^. 

Nunn, Roy 

O'Meara, Chas. J 
O'Meara, Paul A. 

Otnes, Fred J. 
Otnes, John B. 
Palmer, Fwart G. 
Pegues, Henry S. 
Peterson, Albert V. 
Peterson, Carl F. 
Phillips, Chas. W. 
Putnam, Alvin W. 
Randall, Leon 
Rathert, Louis EJ. 
Read, Fmory W. 
Ray, Boyd K. 
Redding, Dennie W. 
Reiber, Carl S. 
Reilly, John J. 
Rivers, Leo F. 
Ross, Clyde J. 
Saterlee, Fred 
Schanlan, Leo T. 
Schraag, WilUe S. 
Schroeder, Ben 
Schultz, Toney 
Schultz, Walter R. 
Scott, Walter N. 
Shafer, Andrew J. 
Shaner, William 
Smith, Chas. L. 
Snell, Clyde R. 
Stansell, Benjamin H. 
Stiffler, Flmer 
Steinbruick, Adolph 

Storey, Fred L. 
Storey, William F. 
Surprenant, Carl B. 
Taylor, LeRoy G. 
Taylor, Raymond T. 
Thompson, "N-^ance F 
Tibbits. Earl P. 
Tressin, Morgan 
Upham, Ralph F. 
Valmer, John O. 
Vetch, Charles C. 



Vetch, George 
Vetch, John H., Jr. 
Ware, George F. 
Warnock, Charles L. 
White, Floyd 
Whitley, Frank 
Williams, Forrest H. 
Williams, Russell H. 
Wilburn, Will L. 
Wrakestraw, George 

Young, Floyd 
Klingman, Oscar 
Attached Reservists: 
Fricson, Arthur W. 
Joyce, Paul O. 
Pride, Joseph 
Anderson, Farl O. 
Armstrong, Adrain R. 
Akins, Frnest C. 
Allen, Dewey W. 
Baker, Roy C. 
Bialachofski, Bill 
Brewster, Willard C. 
Brown, Clarence I. 
Burns, Monroe C. 
Bowman, Hezekiah 

K. 
Billingsley, Buell 
Briggs, Carl 
Black, Alston W. 
Carson, John L. 
Campbell, Guy F. 
Cox, William P. 
Cottom, Ira L- 
Crepps, Glenn Miller 
Campbell, Fdward B. 
Coate, Frank D. 
Ellis, John R. 
Evans, Joe O. 
Flrod, Eddie H. 
Fields, Frank L. 
Fox, Homer D. 
Franklin. Roy E. 
Poster, Roy 
Gillen, Glenn C. 
Green, Corbin L. 
Glotrowski, Wlidslew 

F. 
Haines, William H. 
Hall, Cecil F. 
Hardman, Ralph W. 



Hopner, Roland R. 
Howard, Lewis 
Huffman, Clint 
luros, Thomas 
Johnson, Foster A. 
J^unz, Lawrence W 
Killion, Fred 
Leach, Alfred F 
Miller, Frank O. 
Murphy, Geo. M. 
Minote, Thomas 
Medlen, Charley A 
Mumford, William 's 
Martin, Walter W 

McAfee, Dennis M 
McGhee, Clarence 6. 
Mclntire, Carmi L. 
McAfee, William A. 
Norris, Albre J. 
Norris, Walter D. 
Ostrander, Cecil H 
Parsons, Charles C. 
Potter, Max 
Plunkett, Newton 
Powell, J. John 
Reed, George W. 
Reynolds, Ernest F 
Ross, William Wayne 
Ryan, Floyd 
Robertson, Martin F 
Skaggs, Oscar 
Smith, Benjamin F. 
Shane, James C. 
Songer, Lee 
Smith, Ed. Frank 
Stewart, Clarence W 
Sullivan, Ira J. 
Summer, Servyl S. 
Swiger, Fred O. 
Trimble, Chester F. 
Thomiason, Buck 
Taylor, Earl 
Welch, Henry C. 
Williams, Hiram M. 
Wilson, Willard F. 
Wilson, William B. 
Veerkamp, Franz L. 
Wymann, Lee 
Wilson, Homer C. 
Ward, Charles H, 
Williams, Clint 
Williams, Floyd F. 
Williams, Henry 



Captain, 

George H. Wark 
1st Lieutenant, 

Angus J. Nicholson 
2d Lieutenant, 

Jesse H. Wilson, 



COMPANY D 

Caney 

1st Sergeant, 

Roy N. Grider 
Mess Sergeant, 

Stephen R. Rinehart 
Supply Sergeant, 

Lesley H. Mitchell 



Sergeants: 

Ward D. Nance 
Keith Herring 
Hoyt R. Orgam 
Clarence L. Crandell 
Alfred O. Adams 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Floyd W. Belscamper 
Charles H. Bradley 
Benjamin Taylor 
Corporals: 

VanDeventer, Roland 

W. 
Straight, Albert E. 
Raymond, Roy B. 
Mitchell, Lester A. 
Ramsey, Walter H. 
Johnson, Clarence E. 
Leatherock, Wesley 

K. 
Chilcote, Ferrin H. 
Cochrane, William M,. 
Bowen, Charles R. 
Edmundson, Morril K. 
Danforth, George N. 
Coleman, Gleen T. 
Cherry, Homer E. 
McCrory, Victor E. 



Rogers, Charles A. 

Hemphill, Lloyd 
Mechanics: 

Mitchell, William A. 

Lewis, Bert C. 
Cooks: 

Smith, Fred F. 

Dodson, George W. 

Prall, Joseph N. 
Buglers: 

Cooper, Austin C. 

Franks, Robert A. 
1st Class Privates: 

Boles, Edward J. 

Belscamper, Earl B, 

Boles, Clarence C. 

Booker, Harry C. 

Bowen, Chester J. 

Buster, Roy F. 

Brown, Ernest B. 

Boyer, Baldwin H. 

Carrinder, Jos. G. 



Capps, Hubert 
Cook, William E. 
Corbitt, Joseph W. 
Gilliland. David E. 
GuUic, Jesse 
Higgs, Arthur L. 
Higgs, Ernest D, 
Holden, Raymond T. 
Jones, J. William 
Koons, Frank W. 
McCrory, Lyonell 
McClelland, Geo. W. 
Storms, Everett E. 
Stewart, James W. 
Townsend, Willard E. 
Todd, Dean N. 
Worthen, Sidney L. 
Wiley, Carter W. 
Webb, Henry C. 
Private, 

Smith, Benjamin F. 



COMPANY E 

Leavenworth 



Captain, 

Robert W. Linden- 
struth 
1st Lieutenant, 

Paul C. Radford 
2d Lieutenant, 

Humphrey Biddle 
1st Sergeant, 

Coleman, Don P. 
Supply Sergeant, 

O'Connor, John W, 
Mess Sergeant: 

Radloff, Henry W. 
Sergeants: 

Faulkner, Howard G. 

DeTemple, Allan J. 

Powell, Alfred B. 

Harding, George E. 
Corporals: 

Reilly, William D. 

Cochran, Walter H. 

Gist, Walter M. 

Blochberger, Edward 
R. 

Kerr, Len D. 

Gronis, John D. 

Perkins, Harry A. Jr. 

Levene, Bernard W. 
Mechanic, 

Yates, Edward C. 
Cooks: 

Younger, David L. 

Brenneman, Perry L. 
Buglers: 

Bagwell, Ernest M. 

Kramer, Stephen G. 



Privates: 

Abel, Phillip A. 
Babbitt, Fred F. 
Barber, Royal E. 
Bell, Hugh M. 
Belz, Gus C. 
Blake, John H. 
Broughton, Lloyd D. 
Brushwood, Clyde W. 
Bursch, George W. 
Campbell, Roy S. 
Carter, John V. 
Chambers, Ernest F. 
Collines, Ray L. 
Cooper, Robert E. 
Conley, Walter I. 
Courtney, Guy T. 
Crooks, Marion F. 
Crimley, Corbett 
Denman, Glen M. 
Doherty, Paul M. 
Douglas, Oscar L. 
Douglas, William W. 
Downing, Robert A. 
Davis, Frank M. 
Ennis, Harry J. 
Fleeman, Thomas R. 
Fletcher, George T. S. 
Fitts, Austin 
Ford, Louis R. 
Fullum, Ray F. 
Fretz, Harry E. 
Gardner, Edwin S. 
Garvey, Harry O. 
Ginder, Roy F. 
Gouck, Kenneth S. 
Greene, Robert B. 



Guenther, Louis W. 
Hageman, Harry D. 
Hargrave, Chauncy H. 
Harrison, Guy M. 
Harris, Edwin M. 
Hillis, Gordon N. 
Hitzemann, Clarence 

A. 
Hoffine, Clyde M. 
Hunter, Earl H. 
Jackson, Ivan A. 
Karnes, Frank L. 
Kelsey, Harry R. 
Lake, Ralph E. 
Laiides, Roy E. 
Leach, Elwood M. 
Leach, Ray E. 
LeRoy, Keith K. 
Levi, Morgan P. 
Meister, Paul E. 
Mentzer, Paul E. 
Miller, Edward J. 
Minger, Edward E. 
Mitchell, Sidney B. 
Morrow, Rowland C. 
Mosley, Dewey 
Mueller, Paul E. 
Myers, Oscar L. 
McAtee, Eslie H. 
MacLaren, Larry A. 
McDonald, Chas. J. 
McAnulty, Leo B. 
Nacher, Stephan A. 
Nitz, Edward A, 
Noel, George H. 
Overstreet, William 
Owens, Eugene C. 



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Papenhausen, John 
Parrott, Lee E. 
Pearson, Leon H. 
Perkins, William H. 
Peters, Lyman D. 
Peters, Leslie L. 
Peters, Wallace J. 
Phillips, John E. 
Powers, Kenneth H. 
Ricketts, Fred A. 
Rogers, Ralph E. 
Root, Harvey O. 
Rosenkrantz, Ike 
Salsbery, Edgar R. 



Sample, Louie L. 
Schroeder, Temme W. 
Scott, Jesse W. J. 
Scott, Robert A. 
Shea, George 
Shea, Walter M. 
Shepard, Reginald O. 
Skinner, Joseph W. 
Slattery, Michael W. 
Smith, Robert B. 
Stevenson, Frank G. 
Strong, Harry N. 
Sykes, John 



Talbott, Butler R. 
Tomlinson, Marvin E. 
Trackwell, Ernest E. 
Valentine, Delbert A. 
Ward, Charles P. 
Warren, Ben C. 
Webb, Harrel R. 
Wilson, Andy B, 
Wilson. Charles N. 
Wilson, Edward C. 
Wilson, George T. 
Wood, William H. 
Worley, Ellis O. 
Yarbrough, William H. 



Captain, 

Irving A. Otten 
1st Lieutenant, 

Charles W. Clark 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Carl J. Bare 
1st Sergeant, 

Rice, Fred L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Thuma, Lester C. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Stewart, Chas. V. 
Sergeants: 

Neff, Raymond Y. 

Harmon, Karl M. 

Reese, George W. 

Mitchell, Ezra C. 

Stratford, John R. 

Stratford, Ray A. 

Shyrer, Frank A. 

Matthews, Neil 
Corporals: 

Sheen, Joe R. 

McCurdy, Walter R. 

Cookston, Harry B. 

Oblander, Rhiney 

Pickering, T. Arlie 

Bredendick, Henry 
W. 

McCauley, Robert M. 

Jossi, Louis 

Arnold, Lonzo Bert 

Craig, Harry F. 

Daubenspeck, Geo. W. 

Holderman, Abraham 

Perry, Frank H. 
Smith, Edward M. 
Dockery, Harry 
Logan, Guy R. 
Goff, Manuel B. 
Cooks: 

Whitcomb, Walter R. 
Bedinger, Charles 
James, John T. 



COMPANY F 
El Dorado 

Mechanics: 

Hightower, Herbert 
H. 

Tetrick, Henry C. 
Buglers: 

Houchen, Thomas E. 

Stewart, Lester L. 
1st Class Privates: 

Barnheart, Henry T. 

Biggs, Russell V. 

Daniels, William O. 

Fall, Albert 

Fell, Charley E. 

Graves, John F. 

Greene, Claude W. 

Green, Harry B. 

Halfhill, Noah 

Harden, Milton J. 

Hood, George W. 

Jackson, Lloyd V. 

Lucas, William C. 

Oakes, John A. 

Pirtle, Chas. E. 

Plew, John H. 

Reser, Ralph 

Richardson, Oliver 

Richardson; Roy R. 

Ryan, Philip W. 

Sanders, Chas. L. 

Sass, Fred 

Schmidt, Harry J. 

Shuck, Frank M. 

Smith, Joe J. 

Stanfield, Howard 
Bruce 

Stoltz, Geo. W. 

Stoltz, Ray L. 
Privates: 

Baker, William E. 

Blackwell, Virgil R. 

Eloir, Chas. E. 

Bressell, Philip 

Broadbeck, Ernest A. 

Brown, Joe O. 

Carter, James Levi 

Clark, Frank M. 



Clinton, Arthur E. 
Cole, Orville 
Collins, Clarence 
Correll, John L. 
Counts, John T. 
Counts, Harvey R. 
Crabb, Melvin 
Crans, Thurlow S. 
Daniels, Robert E. 
Darwin, Ernest 
Davenport, Lloyd E. 
Davy, Claude W. 
Ditto, Weir H. 
Doane, Jess 
Doores, Forrest L. 
Doyle, Delta W. 
Dugan, Sherman 
Dyer, Roy E. 
Emery, William H. 
Feely, Raymond B. 
Forristall, Geo. C 
Foust, Benjamin E. 
Gent, Tracy 
Gilliland, Claude K. 
Gist, Harold E. 
Gordon, James 
Gray, Claude E. 
Green, Otis C. 
Griggs, Harry 
Harrington, Lawnie 

E. 
Hayhurst, Clarence M. 
Herrington, Curtis C. 
Hufford, Glenn F. 
Hunter, Floyd N. 
Ingraham, Thomas C. 
Jackson, Chas. V. 
Johnson, Earl Milan 
Kairschner, William 

L. 
Keithley, Henry T. 
Kniff, Walter 
Law, John H. 
Liggett, Lester 
Lindsay, Nat M. 
Love, Rama S. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Lumm, Earl L. 
Lytle, Clyde W. 
Martin, Leslie 
Miller, Frank W. 
Mitchell, Elmer E. 
Morris, Wilbur B. 
Mullins, Oscar B. 
McGrew, Lewis A. 
Oblander. Chas. J. 
Oliver, Ervin L. 
Palmer, Harry H. 
Pierce, Herschel W. 



Rader, Earl H. 
Randall, Henry E. 
Reese, Howard T. 
Rich, Hilbert K. 
Ricord, Edwin O. 
Robbins, Ollie E. 
Russell, Cecil Earl 
Seery, John E. 
Sharp, Oliver 
Sheridan, Clarence E. 
Smith, Ray I. 
Spiegel, Oscar H. 



Stanley, Arthur G. 
Tillery, Lewis W. 
Vernon, Ernest F. 
Walling, Charles E. 
Whitner, Kent O. 
Wilson, Chas. Harri- 
son 
Wilson, James W. 
Wilson, Karl F. 
Windsor, Fred 
Winterrowd, Guy F. 
Wright, Thaddeus A. 



Captain, 

Arthur W. Synder 
1st Lieutenant, 

Edward V. Hanby 
2d Lieutenant, 

George P. Bisenus 
1st Sergeant, 

Gowley, Richard P. 
Supply Sergeant 

Arend, Harold U. 
Sergeants: 

Murray, Chas. T. 

Knight, Robert R. 

Florea, Wilbur C. 

Bryant, Wilber J. 
Corporals: 

Wichers, Henry E. 

Sexton, Joseph C. 

Mitchell, George L. 

Kimsey, Dan E. 

Edwards, Harry 

Bowers, Arthur W. 

Blanks, Dean T. 
Cook: 

Godfrey, Giles J. G. 
Buglers: 

Burch, Roscoe E. 

Crum, Raymond H. 
Privates: 

Abrahams, Louis K. 

Addams, Irvin 

Akens, Charley R. 

Akens, Frank M. 

Allen, Vivian S. 

Barnes, Sam 

Bergier, Lieth J. 

Bickle, Gale 

Bover, Harold J. 

Bottorff, Glen W. 

Bowman, John L. 

Bryant, Geo. T. 

Burns, Eddie 

Carmodv, Thomas 

Casey, Philip T. 

Coble, Glen C. 

Catlin, Clarence A. 

Cope, John G. 



COMPANY G 

Downs 

Cope, Roy Newton 
Confer, Samuel A. 
Covert, Louis L- 
Cox, LaRose 
Creamer, Forrest H. 
Gushing, Roy W. 
Dial, Lawrence E. 
Dillon, Donald 
Duffy, Clarence E- 
Earls, Gordan L. 
Elliott, Anderson 
Elder, Lawrence S. 
Emigh, William F. 
Fisk, Joe M. 
Flickinger, Bert D. 
Fischer, William F. 
Goheen, Maurice S. 
Gibson, Grover C. 
Gill, Joe J. 
Gorham, Arthur 
Greenman, Benjamin 
Griffiths, Floyd L. 
Hauptle, August J. 
Henderson, Arthur W. 
Henderson, Walter P. 
Hettinger, Lloyd M. 
Home, Arthur B. 
Hull, Floyd E. 
Hull, Laurel W. 
Haverty, Leroy 
Havner, Ben C. 
Higgins, Edward J. 
Irey, John M. 
Jones, Harry E. 
Jones, John 
Jones, Lawrence L. 
Jones, Ralph H. 
Johnston, Harry A. 
Johnston, Vearl V. 
Jack, Russell 
Jackson, Earl A. 
Kaup, John C. 
Killinger, LeRoy 
Kirschbaum, Henry 
KisHng, John W. 
Ladow, Aubrey L. 
Latham, Edgar F. 



Lee, Ben 
Love, Charley 
Lynch, Harvey W. 
Lingo, William H. 
Logan, Homer T. 
Lovern, Archie 
McCormick, Alfred B. 
McConnell, Chas. H. 
McCune, Kay E. 
Marzolf, Milton J. 
Maxwell, Ray D. 
Miller, Frank B. 
Montoro, Thomas L. 
Morrell, John S. 
Moyer, Harry E. 
Malcolm, Ollie M. 
Murphy, Will 
Nasman, Eddie L. 
Neifert, Jesse G. 
Parmelee, Dickinson 

L. 
Phillips, Harry 
Raff, Rea 
Randall, James R. 
Ray, Charles O. 
Ray, Ralph P. 
Reddick, Earl E. 
Reddick, William J. 
Remick, Glenn W. 
Richardson, LeRoy 
Richardson, Wayne J. 
Robinson, Charley L- 
Rollins, Vern 
Reeder, Carl W. 
Schellinger, William 

H. 
Sharp, Chester 
Sharp, Gordon 
Sheets, Lawrence O. 
Smith, Albert 
Smith, Charles M. 
Smith, Frank 
Smith, Harold C. 
Smith, Milton H. 
Smith, James O. 
Smith, Zeb 
Sower, Jacob 



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Stansbury, Vaughn t,. 
Stokes, Earl R. 
Sutton, Cecil A. 
Schoonover, I^ee L. 
Talbott, Richard W. 
Teten, John J. 
Thrasher, Robert E. 
Thomas, Dewey O. 



Treaster, Oscar N. 
Turner, Carl M. 
VanCleave, Clifford 

M. 
Ward, Paul 
Walker, Earl R. 
W>11, Donald K. 
White, John N. 



Wideman, Fred E. , 
Winter, Andrew T, 
Walters, Bastian J. 
Williams, Albert J. 
Wright, William t,. 
Yager, Herman 
Young, Lawrence F. 
Zumwalt, John D. 



COMPANY H 

Abilene 



Captain, 

Charles H. Browne 
1st Lieutenant, 

John W. McManigal 
2d Lieutenant, 

Ralph F. Lucier 
Mechanics: 

Lackey, Roy R. 
Tabbron, John W. 
Cooks: 

Clark, Homer L. 
Lash, Harlow W. 
Dunanan, Merle L. 
Buglers: 

Seeds, Robert R. 

Wood, Charles J. 
Privates : 

Anderes, Albert 

Anderson, Arvid H. 

Allgire, Ray R. 

Alstrom, Carl W. 

Alpin, Robert W. 

Armstrong, Harry A. 

Aspley, Roscoe W. 

Rallweg, Clarence J. 

Barkley, Elmer W. 

Blair, Oberten J. 

Boyd, John E. 

Boyer, Homer E- 

Brenner, Sidney C. 

Brinkmeyer, John A. 

Brinkmeyer, Wm. F. 

Buchanan, Dewey H. 

Buchanan, Frank L. 

Buchanan, Harry W. 

Buchanan, Paul 

Buchanan. _ Ward 

Burton, Simeon S. 

Cairns, Chas. B. 

Callahan, Hollv W. 

Callahan, Joe H. 

Campbell, James E. 

Cashman, John L. 

Chesnut, Raymond L. 

Cooper, James M. 

Cox, Joseph H. 

Crumrine, Harvey W. 

Curran, Mark S. 

Cutler, Dale J. 

Cutler, James R. 

Daniel, Jesse J. 



Davis, Arch W. 

Davis, Frank E. 

Dawson, LeeRoy 

Day, Willard L. 

Dayton, Howard S. 

DeHaven, Walter J. 

Deamgion, Sam 

Dixon, Clarence E. 

Dobkins, John M. 

Dower, Jesse R. 

Duffy, Issac 

Dyer, Vaughn 

Eaves, Everett 

Eckley, Chas. T. 

Elwick, Fay A. 

Etherington, Geo. W. 

Ewing, Rexford E. 

Flsher,Grant H. 

Foltz, Carl H. 

Foltz, Edward J. 

Foltz, John A. 

Fraser, Leslie A. 

Frey, John 

Garten, William H. 

Gibbs, Glenn I. 

Gish, Jacob *M. 
Gish, Ray W. 
Hall, James E. 
Harris, Ralph M. 
Hawthorne, Coe 
Haynes, Quin H. 
Herman, Walter R. 
Heskett, Alvin 
Issitt, George E. 
Jeffcoat, Melvin E. 
Jones, Aaron E. 
Jordan, Frank B. 
Jordan, Harold M. 
Kauffman, Clarence E- 
Kauffman, Clyde L- 
Kehler, Ward G. 
Kirk, Charles G. 
Larkin, James E. 
Leshley, Blake 
Lewis, Robert R. 
Loader, George L. 
Loader, Robert K. 
Lucier, Alcide J. 
Luck, Charles J. 
McCosh, Harry P. 
McNeal, Ellis A. 



Machen, John E. 
Mann, Alie A. 
Merillat, Harve G. 
Monroe, Elmer L. 
Nemec, William M. 
O'Neal, Willie H. 
Parks, Everett L. 
Parson, Clint 
Paul, William H. 
Poe, Charles N. 
Porter, Ray 
Rector, Mahon R. 
Reep, Elmer L. 
Reese, Claude E. 
Reid, George A. 
Romberger, Roy B. 
Russell, Roy R. 
Sampson, Clarence A. 
Savidge, Arthur W. 
Savidge, Ernest R. 
Schneider, August G. 
Schneider, Kellen A. 
Seip, Howard L- 
Shannon, Clarence I. 
Sherman, Ralph S. 
Sherwood, Roy C. 
Shirk, Alonzo D. 
Shockey, Fred M. 
Shook, Anthony 
Shook, Grover C. 
Shook, Wilbur V. 
vShoop, Clarence W. 
Sheuy, John S. 
Shum, Lawrence E. 
Siemers, John F. 
Simpson, Clarence A. 
Smith, Albert W. 
Smith, Otto C. 
Sparwasser, Edward 

W. 
Steinborn, George 
Steyer, Clark 
Strowig, Olin R. 
Stuck, Mervin L. 
Stuck, William J. 
Sutton, William H. 
Swanger, Elmer H. 
Tate, William E. 
Tober, Claude A. 
Turner, Ray 
Tweed, David 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



VanDoren, Chester G. 
Viola, Ralph H. 
Walters, Harry E. 



Wigham, William E. 
Wilson, Buck M. 
Wilkie, David, B. 
Yeadon, George W. 



Yeadon, Henry 
Attached, 

Leshley, Floyd 



Captain, 

James B. Garrett 
1st Lieutenant, 

Matthew Guilfoyle 
2d Lieutenant, 

Ralph W. Martin 
Privates: 

Abbott, Lloyd K. 

Adam, Wilbur L- 

Adams, Arthur E. 

Anderson, Clarence L. 

Anderson, Vivian C. 

Annis, Edward C. 

Arbuckle, Frank 

Arnold, John W. 

Arnold, Percy H. 

Asling, Fred 

Baird, Hoyt G. 

Bane, George E. 

Barrett, Daniel 

Barrett, Samuel 

Behring, Harry C, 

Blythe, Harold J. 

Bress, Charles W. 

Buckley, Bollie V. 

Burns, Ambra 

Brock, John 

Calkins, Arthur 

Calkins, Harvey A. 

Callahan, Charles P. 

Cameron, Robert S. 

Chapin, Clarence C. 

Clark, George R. 

Costello, Joseph J. 

Crisp, Edgar E, 

Culver, Harold E. 

Darling, John 

Davis, Tom D. 

Douglas, Levern 

Doyle, Joseph L- 

Duggan, Patrick J. 

Dunn, Jesse L. 

Edens, Harry H. 

Elliott, Worley H. 

Falen, Martin R. 

Fisher, Elmer C. 

Fisher, Samuel L. 

Galloway, Frank C. 

Giltner, Frank E. 

Goodrich, Fred E. 

Haage, Jennings B. 



COMPANY I 

Herington 

Hackler, Hermis C. 
Hammond, Paul H. 
Hamer, Phillip W. 
Harrison, Louie 
Hartley, James M. 
Haversock, Dewey G. 
Hernisen, Elmer 
Hodgson, George W, 
Hoskins, Frank E. 
Howell, Marshall K. 
Hudson, John M. 
Hudson, Steve R. 
Jenkins, Sidney 
Kandt, Martin C. 
Kearn, Earl R. 
Keefer, Samuel B. 
Kiser, Charles H. 
Kistler, John J. 
Kochenower, Walter 

A. 
Kahl, Frank W. 
Kohler, Erwin F. 
Krause, Erphine A. 
Krause, John A. 
Longhofer, Fred 
Longhofer, Godfrey F. 
Lundine, Arthur G. 
McClaran, Carey R. 
McCaleb, Ernest T. 
McDiffett, Lorenzo W. 
McMurray, Harold D. 
McWilliams, Earl J. 
Maddix, Earl C. 
Metcalfe, Albert L. 
Meyers, Harvey R. 
Meyers, Thomas D. 
Miskey, August L. 
Moors, Clarence C. 
Moorehead, Fred D. 
Morris, Robert O. 
Mulkey, Myron M. 
Murphy, Ray H. 
Neis, Clarence H. 
Nichols, Harold C. 
Normandin, William 

H. 
Oldfield, Louis D. 
Oldfield, Willie 
Oneil, John J. 
Pabst, Charles E. 
Pegorsch, Henry A. 
Pfeister, Simmie C. 
Phillips, Fred F. 
Pio, Jesse L. 



Potts, Albert S. 
Price, Ronald H. 
Pugh, Carl D. 
Rader, Procter E. 
Reber, Otto A. 
Reed, Alonzo L. 
Rigney, James A. 
Rogers, Thomas R. 
Rupert, Evert 
Ruyle, Lawrence R. 
Schrader, Herbert C. 
Schrader, Robert F. 
Schrolick, Martin W. 
Schump, Jos. F. 
Schump, Paul J. 
Seely, Dwight H. 
Sell, Vernon D. 
Sheehan, Francis W, 
Sheridan, Delmer R. 
Shipley, Perry 
Smith, Cecil E. 
Smith, Roy H. 
Spady, Alex 
Staley, Harvey H. 
Steinberg, Shirley 
Sterling, Joseph A. 
Stevenson, Luther C. 
Sturgis, Harold D. 
Strunk, Milton 
Thomas, Carl A. 
Tullis, Harvey W. 
Vanderpool, Clarence 

T., 
Vansickle, Jack 
Vaughn, Floyd 
Volkman, Arthur W. 
Wager, Claude H. 
Walker, Arthur H. 
Walker, Earl R. 
Wakefield, Fred 
Ward, Ison R. 
Waylan, Harold E. 
Weaver, Harold W. 
Webster, Clyde E. 
Wiggins, Horace E. 
Wilde, Lavern F. 
Wilde. Teddy L. 
Williams, Arthur J. 
Williams, Charles D. 
Wilson, Mark E. 
Young, Leo H. 
Combs, Harry L. 
Hopper, Charles A. 
Stephens, Harry H. 
Tebo, George H. 



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411 



Captain, 

Howard M. Randall 
1st Lieutenant, 

George C. Brewster 
2d Lieutenant, 

John F. Raster 
1st Sergeant, 

Sheets, Frank R. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Gilchrist, Walter C. 
Mess Sergeant, 

McDonald, Harvey 

Sergeants : 

Freeburne, Cecil 

Weede, James A. 

McArthur, John C. 

Kobel, George W. 
Cook, 

Shea, James L. 
Privates : 

Albrecht, Henry G. 

Adams, Carl E. 

Atkisson, Louis D. 

Anderson, George A. 

Adams, Arthur 

Abbey, Frank L., Jr. 

Adams, Donald F. 

Armstrong, Lloyd H. 

Baker, Marvin S. 

Burgener, Leo I. 

Blough, Vernon L. 

Blaycook, Herbert J. 

Barr, Harry R. 

Burdick, Roy F. 

Bassett, Leroy H. 

Black, Rex R. 

Brogdon, John I. 

Barker, Roy B. 

Britt, A. Earl 

Carter, Milo O. 

Carter, Frank E. 

Coppock, Charles 

Cox, Floyd L. 

Cox, John E. 

Chambers, Walter E. 

Chester, George M. 

Cryderman, Wayne V. 

Corley, Joel V. 

Corley, John C. 

Crow, Lloyd W. 

Davis, Evan L. 

Deshner, Walter H. 

Dunmire, Joseph A. 

Dohner, Rutherford B. 

Egbert, Rollin E. 



COMPANY K 

Newton 

Errett, Jay H. 
Sshom, Charles H, 
EversuU, Stephen B. 
Ferguson, Roy 
French, William P. 
Finnell, Lauren 
Fowler, Clarke D. 
Fuller, Ellis B. 
Eraser, Gilbert S. 
Fieth, Milton E. 
Freeburne, Clarence 
Gilchrist, William B. 
Grochowsky, Jacob 
Griswold, Oberly A. 
Geisick, Henry 
Gradert. John F. 
Henry, Lawrence G. 
Hankins, James L. 
HoUe, Frank J. 
Hoppe, Eugene A. 
Hoffman, William 
Hall, Harry L. 
Hoffman, Carl C. 
Hampson, T. Carlyle 
Hartman, Joseph W. 
Hutton, Leroy J. 
Huey, Frank G. 
Hammond, Harry 
Hartman, William L. 
Hardin, Ellis L 
Hamilton, Thomas D. 
Harris, Weeton V. 
Hopkins, Myron E- 
Ingold, Walter T. 
Ishman, Leroy G. 
Jewell, Carl L. 
Kinard, Fred E. 
Keeppen, Hancel G. 
Knee, James C. ' 
Landes, Adolph H. 
Lantz, Chauncy M. 
Liggett, Astin A. 
McGlassen, John A. 
Merritt, Cecil 
Miller, Wilbee F. 
Moffett, Chas. C. 
Murdock, Delbert 
McMillan, Ralph E. 
Morgan, Earl A. 
Morrison, Thomas L. 
Newfield, Thomas S. 
Patterson, Edward C. 
Pace, William L. 
Payne, Charles H. 
Pletcher, Paul 
Quigley, Edward D. 



Renick, Harry H. 
Rogers, Harold A. 
Reid, William J. 
Royer, Paul 
Rhoads, Marvin E. 
Reid, Marion C. 
Roberts, Erskine 
Rogers, Walter K. 
Ragsdale, Lawrence E. 
Rodenbaugh, Allen H. 
Sims, Ottis M. 
Stewart, WelUngton 
Stockman, Francis J. 
Small, Charles L. 
Scott, John L. 
Simpson, Orin S. 
Schertz, George H. 
Snyder, John R. 
Shacklett, Glen E . 
Starrett, Royce E. 
Slaymal^er, Chas. E. 
Sawyer, Gordon W. 
Smith, Carleton S. 
Sisson, Arthur R. 
Simpson, Duke B. 
Sperry, Frank L. 
Stone, Edward A. 
Smith, Emmett E. 
Swengle, Elmo S. 
Schell, Oscar J. 
Sands, Ewart W. 
Timmons, Harley N. 
Timons, Franklin P. 
Thompson, Marvin B. 
Terry, McKinley 
Ulery, Audily W. 
Vandine, Robert W. 
Warner, Merle B. 
WilUams, Walter R. 
Welsh, Willard 
Woodley, Homer 
Walden, Francis W. 
White, John S. 
Warner, John C. 
West, Paul L. 
Whitesell, Arthur P. 
Wing, Norris N. 
Wolter, Fred W. 
Zimmerman, Harvey 
F. 
Attached: 

Gragg, George L. 
Powell, Arthur F. 
Bainbridge, Roy T. 
Young, Robert E. 
Cumings, Thad L. 



412 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Captain, 

Thomas L. Crow 
1st lyieutenant, 

Asa R. Black 
2d Lieutenant, 

William H. Haupt 
Sergeants : 

Wynn, Byron F. 

Greenway, Raymond 

Hyndman, Eugene B. 
Corporals : 

Hamel, Arthur A. 

Winfield, Joseph M. 

Lowry, Delwyn B. 

Halcomb, John S. 

Ross, WiUiam H. 

Netherton, Chas. E. 

Renn, Geo. S. 

Beattie, James I. 

Holt, Elmer M. 

Marshall, Thomas B. 

Humphrey, Earl D. 

Clark, William C. 

Kellog, Frank H. 

Robinson, Ronald W. 

Schwinn, Thomas 
Mechanics: 

Lovingfoss, Harold 
C. 

Spencer, Frank F. 
Cooks: 

Collins, Claude H. 

Camp, Daniel C, 

Burscough, Guy E. 
Musicians: 

Nixon, Fred 

Bell, Cecil V. 
Privates : 

Anderson, Archie N. 

Anderson, Walter J. 

Ash, Carl 

Allen, John 

Burcham, Grant F. 

Brubaker, Claude H. 

Beatty, Charles L. 

Burson, Ray E. 

Brown, Fawn D. 

Botkin, Elmo 

Barner, Lee M. 

Black, Guy A. 

Banghart, Merle R. 

Botkin, Jay 

Beattie, Harold R. 

Bunker, Wiley H. M. 

Blank, Floyd E- 

Baldwin, James M. 



COMPANY L 

Wellington 

Cecil, Carl L. 
Casselman, Philip J. 
Clark, DeWitt T. 
Caples, Russel B. 
Carson, Clifford 
Cowherd, William A. 
Crowdus, William W. 
Campbell, Enor C. 
Collins, Glen 
Clark, Luther A. 
Corey, Sam 
Derington, Edwin E. 
Dobbs, Kenneth S. 
Dailey, Ralph D. 
Dawson, Benjamin H. 
Doramus, Elmer C. 
Dust, Pete 
Ekland, Ralph L. 
Edmonson, Dale E. 
Eads, David R. 
Elsas, Chas. H. 
Foster, Alfred E. 
Ford, John T. 
Gardner, John A. 
Ginder, Walter E. 
Gaines, Wilbur S. 
Gardner, Arthur S. 
Gardner, Arthur J. 
Goff, Cleo C. 
Gowers, George L. 
Gwinn, WilHs P. 
Gift, Floyd W. 
Hollingsworth, Ralph 
Hamel, Melvin A. 
Hainsworth, Avery L- 
Hainsworth, Ralph B. 
Hopper, Frank C. 
Heasty, Kearns R. 
Henderson, Wesley A. 
Higgins, Joe L. 
Jones, Sumner 
Jones, Fred L. 
Kanage, Sterling G. 
Kennison, Frank N. 
Kohl, Willard B. 
Kohler, Lewis 
Kublus, Chas. M. 
Laird, Thomas E. 
Lewis, Charlie A. 
Long, William N. 
Lane, David W. 
Logan, John 
Mathews, Whit O. 
Marshall, Fred L. 
Morrell, Floyd B. 
Meyer, Walter O. 
Meredith, Warren C. 
Mains, Fred L. 



Maxon, Emery L. 
Mosby, Harry 
Maynard, Aaron A. 
Mayes, Curtis L. 
McCombs, Nathaniel 

G. 
McNally, Bryan T. 
McKinney, Alex E. 
McFarland, Oral R. 
McCabe, Delbert E. 
McCuen, Chas. L. 
McGreavy, Thomas 

W. 
Nickerson, Ellsworth 

N. 
Overby, Jesse M. 
Ostrander, Ray M. 
Poirier, Victor G. 
Phelps, William A. 
Patterson, Richard B. 
Potucek, Chas. W. 
Powell, Walter M. 
Quinby, Albert M. 
Roth rock, Ray R. 
Riner, Howard W. 
Rorick, Chas. A. 
Swift, Claude J. 
Smith, Chas. H. 
Sparr, Orville 
Snyder, Carroll D. 
Sullivan, Clyde R. 
Stewart, Harry L. 
Sunderland, Roscoe 

L. 
Stone, Robert R. 
Strphmeier, Rex R. 
Shaffer, Chas. F. 
Scrivens, Rolla E. 
Tooley, Chester N. 
Threlfall, John H. 
Tennant, Warren A. 
Tucker, Hobart B. 
VanHorn, Harry E. 
Vaughn, Warren Z. 
Whittaker, Walter W. 
Wilson, Loren T. 
Wilson, Roscoe 
Winsor, Glen H. 
Waugh, Joseph E. 
Walker, Joseph E. 
Williams, Claude D. 
Young, John E. 
Zook, Russel A. 
Attached : 

Parker, Thaddie M. 
Waid, Arthur 
Discharge, 

McKinley, William A. 



ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 



413 



Captain, 

George L,. Allison 
1st lyieutenant, 

;Edwin V. Burkholder 
2d Lieutenant, 

William R. Carpenter 
Privates : 

Applegate, Oscar C. 

Bray, EJarl W. 

Bray, Francis EJ. 

Brown, William J, 

Brown, Curtis 

Brunner, Henry 

Brening, Geo. T. 

Buffington, Harry W. 

Buffington, Charlie H. 

Bullock, Clyde 

Barton, Luther L. 

Beisel, Gotfred F. 

Bibler, Meade O. 

Booth, Frnest L. 

Bauerle, Chas. W. 

Baker, John F. 

Blackburn, Russell 
W. 

Bates, Delano F. 

Buffington, Walter O. 

Boes, Chas. W. 

Carney, Fred J. 

Castle, Roy C. 

Caswell, Arthur B. 

Childs, Guy F. 

Converse, Floyd F. 

Cooper, Albeit F. 

Cooper, Milburn M. 

Christ, Morris 

Christian, Geo. A. 

Doron, Arthur W. 

Downey, Elmer G. 

Dodge, William J. 

Doering, William 

Deal, Clarence F. 

Druse, Martin F. 

Duree, Geo. W. 

Fichenour, John W. 

Fvans, Frnest R. 

Fisher, Anthony 

Flook, Herman F. 

Fitch, Chas. L. 

Fawley, Wilbur O. 

Friesen, William 

Fisher, Frank 

France, William P. 

Foth, Jona 



COMPANY M 
Marion 

Foth, Fred W. 
Gerhardt, John H. 
Goodman, Nolan G. 
Goodman, Lafe 
Grimes, Bruce H. 
Hammer, Park S. 
Hanneman, Abraham 
Hayes, Fverett F. 
Herndon, Chas. D, 
Herbel, Andrew 
Holmberg, Chas. H. 
Hopper, William F. 
Honn, Calvin 
Houlton, Carroll V. 
Hugo, John R. 
Hulett, Virgil W. 
Hunt, Blaine A. 
Hurt, Harold H. 
Hopkins, Myron F. 
Hadel, Henry W. 
Jacka, Alfred F. 
Jaeger, Harry C. 
Kmot, John E. 
Keaser, Kenneth 
Kline, Henry 
Kelther, Neil 
Krause, Isaac 
Larsen, Robert 
Lawrence, Adrain F- 
Lovelace, Joseph 
Lovelace, Herbert 
Lawrence, Fdward 
Loveless, Paul C. 
Linn, Farl J. 
Martin, Henry S. 
Miesse, James W. 
Mackie, Frank J. 
Murry, Andrew A. 
Martin, Tolbert S. 
Monroe, Lawrence R. 
Miller, Walter J. 
McClure, Norvie J. 
McClellan, John I. 
May, Alexander J. 
jNIay, Adam F. 
Matthews, Clarence 

L. 
Newcomb, Wayne C. 
Noll, Archie R. 
Niederhauser, Charlie 

C. 
Navrat, Joseph 
Potter, Kent B. 
Potter, Floyd 



Piper, William O. 
Patterson, Harry O, 
Pauls, Rudolph 
Raley, Frank O. 
Reiswig, Dave 
Riddle, John 
Roberts, Orville O. 
Rollins, Harry A. 
Rollins, James C. 
Ramsey, Garland 
Shepperd, Charlie F. 
Sims, Robert D. 
Straubs, Heron S. 
Shultz, Fred 
Siegenthal, Albert 
Sailer, Arthur H. 
Schmidt, Alvin 
Sellers, August 
Schmidt, Richard M. 
Smith, Isaac R. 
Shimic, Albert 
Shahan, Winfield F. 
Shields, Albert J. 
Sparks, Warren 
Thomas, Thomas J. 
Tajchman, Louis 
Tipton, Chauncey F. 
Tarrant, Andy F. 
Trear, Barney H. 
Urbanek, Philip M. 
Urbanek, Fnos 
Vadakin, Athol G. 
Vance, Harry M. 
Vogan, Orval C. 
Varelman, George F. 
Wachholz, August 
Wight, Ollie O. 
Weinmeister, Harry, 

Winner, Claude S. 
Weadon, Frank M. 
Williams, Stephen C. 
Wikus, Julius L. 
Wells, John J. 
Willhite, Desmond R. 
Wheeler, Lewis H. 
Wilcox, Harry M. 
Walle, Paul J. 
Wheeler, James A. 
Zeih, Jacob, Jr. 
Zeih, Henry 
Zeiner, Farl S. 
Attached: 

Fox, George L. 



SANITAEY DEPAETMENT 



Major, 

Henry D. Smith 



1st Lieutenants: 
Herbert M. Webb 



John F. Coffman 
Fugene Harrison 



414 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



1st Sergeant, 

Dreyer, Arthur N. 
Sergeants : 

Read, Lathrop B. Jr. 

Schropp, Martin A. 

MacLeod, Percy A. 
1st Class Privates: 

Bonar, Verlin E. 

Bonesteel, Guy M. 

Combs, George M. 

Duer, Alva O. 

Erps, Harry R. 

Fuhrken, Arnold C. 

King, Fred E. 



Lull, Sherman F. 
Lull, Elmer 
McLeod, Alvin C. 
Philbrook, Merell F. 
Stoffle, Herbert F. 
Turner, James A. 
VanDewalker, Farl 

G. 
Whestine, Sylvester 

B. 
Privates : 

Allen, William H. 
Close, Gilbert C. 
Durst, John 



Featherkyle, Leo F. 

Fetrow, Ward W. 

Gray, Robert C. 

Howe, Edward C. 

Johnson, Frank P. 

Kelly, Newton B. 

Lecuyer, Albert F. 

Steele, Oliver P. Jr. 

McLeod, Fred J. 

Swan, Bradford L. 

Wright, Paul C. 
Attached : 
Private, 

Gray, Earl R. 



FIRST KANSAS BATTALION OF ENGINEERS 

HEADQUARTERS 

Kansas City 



Major, 

Leigh Hunt 
Captain, 

Glenwood L. McLane 



FIELD AND STAFF 

Sergeant-Major, 

Raymond M. Reese 

Master Engineers, Junior 
Grade : 
Burt Northrup 



Oliver A. Lewis 
Milton Steinmetz 
William A. Stacey 
Elmer O. Martin 
Delmar Thorpe 



Captain, 

Hugh W. Crawford 
1st Lieutenants: 

Luther R. Tillotson 

Roy A. Finney 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Otto E. Dengelstadt 
1st Sergeant, 

Wright, Philo A. 
1st Class Sergeant, 

Gaw, Richard M. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Stewart, William F. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Smith, Philander 
Stable Sergeant, 

Haggard, Ashley P. 
Sergeants : 

Baker, Alfred G. 

Firestone, Clifford L. 

Fletcher, Claude C. 

Caywood, Hugh T. 

Stevens, Hal 

Mclntyre, John 

Logan, Vernon L. 

Deane, John F. 
Corporals: 

Terrill, Edmund J. 

Irons, James P. 

Hill, Clarence J. 



COMPANY A 

TOPEKA 

Vernson, Harry W. 

Hughes, Jay B. 

Chandler, Geo. L. 

Palmer, Gustave J. F. 

Kanode, Lynn H. 

Stephan, Earle D. 

Moreland, Alban R. 

Holliday, Wilber N. 

Purdy, Donald C. 

Whipple, Harold C. 

Thurman, Robert S. 

Smith, Frank W. 
Horseshoer, 

Lane, John A. 
Buglers : 

Davis, Homer N. 

Osborn, Lindsay C. 
Cooks : 

Ellis, Harold H. 

Quigley, Earl 
1st Class Privates: 

Berlin, Brooks 

Caveneo, Fred 

Cowgill, David M. 

Cheney, Albert R. 

Daeschner, Frank S. 

DeGroat, Bruce 

Billon, Clyde W. 

Eagon, Vernon R. 

Eberhart, Sidney P. 

French, Raymond E. 



Gaston, Eldridge 
Geiger, Jesse C. 
Gress, Roy K. 
Hockett, Ray L. 
Janney, Walter C. 
Knight, Raymond A. 
Lindsay, Junior S. 
Lingo, William E. 
Monroe, Donald F. 
Prewett, Vance V. 
Pringle, Ray A. 
Rees, George D. 
Umpstead, Clarence 

C. 
Wakeman, Clyde L. 
West, John W., Jr. 
Williams, Milo Ells- 
worth 
Wilson, William Ray 
Winters, Ray 
Privates : 

Anderson, Robert A. 
Baker, David D. 
Balston, Hobart 
Barner, William E. 
Barrett, Gordon A. 
Beers, Dorsey L. 
Beers, Glenn E. 
Bell, Tobe E. 
Bender, Harry E. 
Birdsall, Walter H. 



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Brel, Henry E). 
Brooks, Hayden H. 
Brown, Wm. T., Jr. 
Burke, Otto J. 
Burke, Chester L,. 
Bushnell, Hurbert J. 
Cahill, Joseph ^. 
Campbell, Joseph M. 
Canfield, Harry F. 
Cassady, Floyd A. 
Catansaro, Theodore 

Chessman, Charles A. 
Church, Richard B. 
Colbert, Walter W. 
Colvill, George B. 
Cooper, Charley J. 
Crum, Wilham F. 
Curtis, Charles H. 
Davis, Marvin B. 
Dorris, Frank Jr. 
Dugan, Frank T. 
Dutro, John D. 
Edwards, James W. 
Fggert, Henry A, 
Dkston, Martin H. 
Fagan, Joseph C. 
Forney, Abram H. 
Hall, Selby H. 
Hamilton, Fdwin G. 
Henry, Ed. H. S. 
Henica, WiUiam C. 
Higgins, EaMoine M. 
Hoselton, Purdy 
Jarus, Fmil Charles 
Johnson, Roy D. 
Kelsey, Charles B. 
Kittell, George J. 
Kirkpatrick, Edward 

R. 
Koons, Howard W. 
lyawrence, Robert K. 
Lemly, Paul R. 
Levey, Earl R. 
Long, Claude O. 
Lowe, Willoughby M. 
Martin, Edwin 
Miller, Willis C. 
Mountfortt, Wade, Jr 
McLaughlin, David 
McNeal, Charles E. 
McWilliams, Calvin S. 
Owings, Glen R. 
Painter, Edward L. 
Parker, John O. 
Piper, Franklin E. 
Potter, Seymour 
Reneau, William A. 
Rigsby, Charles E. 
Roberts, Clifton 
Roberts, Lloyd R. 
Rowan, Jom L. 
Russell, Virgil B. 
Scovel, Raleigh 



Scudder, Benjamin H. 
Sharkey, Charles T. 
Sloane, Charles A. 
Smith, Leonard F. 
Spencer, Marion A. 
Stephens, Frank L. 
Stewart, Robert E. 
Stratton, WilHam 
Talbott, Verne H. 
Tann, William E- 
Timmins, Homer H. 
Simmins, Vaughn E. 
Townsend, James F., 

Jr. 
Trotter, Rolland L. 
True, Guy Herbert 
Van Hart, Harold H. 
Veltrop, George 
Willard, Sherman K. 
Whitmore, Verne R. 
White, Myron E. 
Loss, Discharged, 
Dano, Raymond J. 
Ruble, Roland O. 
Stephan, Thomas A. 
Street, Gordon F. 
Thompson, Leroy 
Tomlinson, William 

A. 
Updegrove, Eugene A. 
Wardin, William L. 
Williamson, Melvin 

L. 
Privates : 

Adamson, Paul D. 
Allen, Fred R. 
Amis, John C. 
Anderson, Leroy P. 
Barnes, Arthur R- 
Battey, Eugene F. 
Bell, Alexander R. 
Bell, Robert P. 
Bonebrake, Frederick 

T. 
Blevins, Earl F. 
Brown, Ernest L. 
Bunce, Earl J. 
Bunce, Frank E. 
Burke, Eugene R. 
Burtch, Russell A. 
Calderwood, Will E. 
Campbell, Harry W. 
Carlson, Willard F. J. 
Clark, George A. 
Clayton, James I. 
Clements, Charles W. 
Compton, Allen T. 
Cress, Howard R. 
Crowder, Leslie E. 
Currens, Raymond L. 
Dean, John S., Jr. 
DeWolfe, Amos C, 
Dillon, Dale C. 
Doak, William 



Dungan, Lee 
Elliott, John P. 
Ellison, Frank 
Ewell, John L- 
Felder, Mathew 
Finuf, Harrison 
Ford, Elmo A. 
Ford, John J. 
Foulk, Albert C. 
Friend, John M. 
Gaines, Thomas J. 
Garrett, Harold E. 
Garvie, Hugh A. 
Guyer, Ray H. 
Hall, Jay 
Hall, Seldon G. 
Harrington, F. 

Wallace 
Dewitt, Henry W. 
Hill, Richard L. 
Huffman, Claude I. 
Huntsinger, Ivan 
Ice, Lloyd 
Jessop, Charles T. 
Justice, Robert J. 
Keeney, Leroy C, 
Keeses, Gerald B. 
Ketchum, Omar B. 
Linscheid, Otto P. 
Light, John C. 
McClain, Lige D. 
Magill, Laurus A. 
Magill, Wilbur S. 
McBride, Andrew L- 
Martin, Ray P. 
Mason, Ray B. 
Mason, Robert W. 
Matthews, David W. 
Minturn, Benjamin 

E. 
Morriss, Clarence M. 
Norris, Fred F. 
O'Leary, Dorman H. 
Oman, Ralph W. 
Owen, Joseph 
Pinet, Eli P. 
Polls, John R. 
Rainey, Robert L. 
Randall, Charles 
Reid, Theodore C. 
Riley, Edward S. 
Rogers, Willard B. 
Rucker, Harvey D. 
Sackett, Lucien E. 
Schaub, Lee R. 
Scribner, John C. 
Shrader, Paul R. 
Sills, Shellis H. 
Simmons, Chester T. 
Singleton, William S. 
Talbert, Joseph H. 
Taylor, Glenn 
Thurman, Harold D. 
Welch. David 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Welch, Howard M. 
Wiley, Alfred B. 
Worral, Anton W. 



Wilson, John G. 
Ball, Eddie R. 
Furlong, Clarence E. 
Martin, Glen 



Piper, Albert 
Vier, Shellie V. 
Whitecotton, Fred 



Captain, 

Darl S. James 
1st Lieutenants: 

Harold J. Brownlee 

William D. Weidlein 
2d Lieutenant, 

Hubert R. Hudson 
1st Sergeant, 

McCarty, Leon B. 
1st Class Sergeants: 

Barnhart, Oliver F. 

English, William J. 

Snyder, Wenslow P. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Nevin, Harry L. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Ronayne, Frank J. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Roberts, Justice L. 
Sergeants: 

Forney, Roy S. 

Proudfit, James H. 

Weibel, Leo. N. 

Spratt, Robert C. 

Ficken, Benjamin F. 

Conrey, Stephen J. 

Dryden, Paul L. 

Bell, Roy H. 
Horseshoer, 

Coles, Harry R. 



COMPANY B 

Kansas City 

Saddler, 

Walker, Fred R. 
Buglers: 

Harris, Hector W. 

Nicholson, Floyd S. 
Cooks: 

Dittrich, Louis 

Whittington, John H. 

Anderson, Harbert V. 
Corporals: 

Weidlein, Glee T. 

Wilson, Harry L. 

Kelley, Raymond B. 

Madden, Frank A. 

Brazille, Edward T. 

Foster, Fred V. 

McCallum, Donald J. 

Webb, Walton H. 

Trotter, Nathan P. 

Stephens, Hollis H. 

Brigham, Arthur 
Perry 

Vest, Edwin A. 

Feller, George C. 

Drury, Andrew W. 

Winn, Edward L. 

Rau, Eugene E. 

Willis, James W. 

Angle, Roy 



1st Class Privates: 
Becker, Jonas P. 
Bottum, Charles A. 
Carmichael, Lachlan 
Cooper, William C. 
Craven, John J. 
Edmonds, William 

Henry 
Englander, Arthur R. 
Foster, Guy A. 
Heinmann, Charles T. 
Hoyt, Raymond A. 
Lane, Frank C. 
Leport, Fred R. 
McAvoy, Bernard F. 
MacDuff, Irl G. 
Moon, Alva L. 
Norman, Frank R. 
Porter, Will A. 
Ramsey, Arnold G. 
Reardon, John 
Seineke, Max E. 
Roberts, Clarence 
Smith, Gardner M. 
Smith, Orliff E. 
Strohmyer, William 

E. 
Thomas, Clifford A. 



Captain, 

Orlin Hudson 
1st Lieutenants: 

Charles R. Fisher 

Carl E. Rouse 
2d Lieutenant, 

Herbert T. Barclay 
1st Sergeant, 

McCoy, Charles A. 
1st Class Sergeants: 

Henschel, Ramsey C. 

Nelson, Henning F. 

Tucker, Arthur L. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Schwitzgebel, Charles 
F. 
Supply Sergeant, 

McLanahan, Orville 
W. 



COMPANY 
Kansas City 

Stable Sergeant 

Gilmore, Walton W. 
Duty Sergeants : 

Dells, David P. 

Gosney, Thomas W. 

Van Doren, Robert 
H. 

Frick, Wallace H. 

Gibson, Foster M. 

Dissinger, John E. 

Crooks, Reed M. 

Yarnell, George W. 
Corporals: 

Austin, Charles E. 

Bakeman, J. P. 

Bruce, Guy S. 

Faulkner, Ward 

Hill, Charles A. 

Hvimphrey, Ralph 



Merriam, Charles W. 

McMillen, Delbert 

Miller, Max 

Miller, Harry W. 

Nelson, Len B. 

Russell, Charles F. 

Snow, Leon J. 

Sack, Norman R. 

Shackelton, Fred J. 

Stewart, Harold E. 

Shannon, Harold E. 

Toole, Wilbut N. 
Horseshoer, 

Bankin, Walter S. 
Saddler, 

McMickell, Harvey D. 
Buglers: 

Alley, Worth B. 

Payne, EHas B. 



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Cooks: 

Thenney, Ernest 

Dell, Raymond H. 

Pickett, Oliver B. 
1st Class Privates: 

Albin, Ira F. 

Dill, Bruce L. 

Evans, Joseph R. 

Fleener, George C. 

Prater, Robert A. 

Gardner, Harold B. 

Gentry, John P. 

Harwood, Arthur W. 

Hendricks, Garry T. 

King, George R. 

Knauss, John D. 

Lanctot, Sheridan E. 

McFarlane, Joseph T. 

Martin, Ward 

Martin, Bruen h. 

Northrup, Floyd L,. 

Palmer, Edward G. 

Rhodes, Gerald F. 
Reed, Ruben R. 

Rowan, Thomas M. 
Savage, Frank M. 

Sicking, Walter A. 
Smith, John D. 
Talpey, Frank A. 
Tracy, James R. 
Thurston, Bryan E. 
Verdieck, Arthur 
Wetzig, John R. 
Wirth, John A. 
Wisely, William W. 
Walter, Chas. E. 
Privates : 
Allen, Albert A. 
Barker, Thomas Y. 
Bennett, James A. 
Brading, Roy W, 
Brown, John N. 
Condon, Robert E. 
Cosintino, John 
Crane, Milo A, 



Crawford, Jess 

Conroy, Curtis W. 

Deems, Frank L,. 

Dessert, Harry H. 

Dimmitt, Austin 

Duncan, John H. 

Eaton, Robert R. 

Edwards, William E. 

Farber, Henry C. 

Flinn, Roy W. 

Glassco, James S. 

Graham, Harry E. 

Graham, Wilbur E. 

Gray, William R. 
Grieshammer, Nicholas 

Ragan, Eugene J. 
Hamacher, Herbert H. 

Harvey, Hayden W. 

Haslip, Charles R. 
Henricks, Charley E. 
Hendricks, Jesse H. 
Hethcock, Lee 
Holverstott, Claud T. 
Hoover, Merle W. 
Horrell, Jay R. 
Heckert, Eugene D. 
Humphrey, Walter F. 
Johnson, Carl F. 
Johnson, George A. 
Johnson, Ishmael 
Ivy, Thruman 
Keegan, John F. 
Kilmer, James A. 
Knutson, Arthur J. 
Kloster, Elmer A. 
Lamb, Frank 
Lambert, Robert E. 
Layson, Robert C. 
Lane, Charles H. 
Lloyd, Everett R. 
Lovejoy, Fred 
Lucas, William F. 
McGreary, Leo. R. 



McKeown, Robert H. 

Mackie, Lyman S. 

Major, Everett O. 

Mateer, Frank D. 

Morris, Harold E. 

Morrison, Ralph W 

Newton, Ralph W. 

Nettleton, Francis J. 

Pavlu, Albert J. 

Perkins, George T. 

Perkins, Harold L. 

Plunkett, James W 

Pierce, Harry H. 

Raddant, George T 

Rice, Howard B. 

Riley, David F. 

Rodewald, Albert T 

Rossner, Lome L. ' 

Sebree, Heise H. 

Shields, Edward E. 

Shultz, George J. 

Smither, Webster D 

Sprague, Arthur G. 

Storey, Bert W. 

Styrgis, Joy F. 

Summers, George F 
Tedder, Norman C. * 

Thomas, Lee R. 
Thomson, Gerald' R 
Thomson, John L 
Underwood, Tillman 
Van Houten, Herbert 

H. 
Van Pelt, George C. 
Voltz, Dee D. 
Weber, August, Jr. 
White, Joseph L. 
Wendt, George C. 
Westendick, Philip H. 
Williams, Charles D. 
Willard, Harry L. 
Williams, Ira R. 
Wood, Albert B. 
Loss, 

Nunter, Frank A. 



DETACHED MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF 1ST BATTALION 
OF KANSAS ENGINEERS 



Sergeant, 

Brier, Archibald J. 
Privates, 

Hawley, Leslie H. 



Holmes, Rodney J. 
Holtwick, Charles J. 
Pardon, Charles V. 
Ramsey, John D. 
Sendson, Harold M. 



KANSAS ENGINEER TRAIN 
Independence 



Captain, 

Robert W. Lewis 
First Lieutenants : 

Peake Vincil 



Fannon F. Beau- 
champ 
Second Lieutenant, 
Donald Gaither 



Master Engineers, 
Senior Grade: 
Sanders, Ernest 
Hunt, William R. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Junior Grade : 

Douthat, Lee A. 

Oakleaf, Lovell R. 

Dreher, Charlie 

Rowland, Dan W. 
First Sergeant, 

Chappuie, Gordon 
First Class Sergeants : 

Morgan, Will C. 

Hereld, Roy 
Bn. Sup. Sergeant, 

Matthews, Dean V. 
Supply Sergeants : 

Smith, Robert R. 

Brinkham, Floyd VV. 
Stable Sergeants: 

Overfield, Roy 

Travis, Chester K. 
Sergeants : 

McCue, James B. 

Hill, John R. 

Blades, Ralph C. 

Davidson, Frank 

Todd, Farl C. 

McCollum, Eugene 
F. 

Corporals : 
Jones, Albert S. 
Evans, George A. 
Frisinger, Chester A. 
McEvers, Maurice A. 
Small, Orloe D. 
Smith, William A. 
Bloom, George L. 
Ebner, Clyde T. 
Navarre, Henry C. 
Cooper, Hutchison 

Horseshoers: 

Bixler, John L. 

Hathaway, Claude W. 

Fields. Claude B. 

Murray, Loyd M. 

Ditts, Olin H. 
Saddler, 

Robertson, Walter F. 
Wagoners: 

Allen, Ben S. 

Anz Elmo, Nicola 

Anderson, Howard M. 

Addington, Albert T. 

Allred, Ivan A. 

Baldwin, Calvin R, 

Bennett, John R. 

Brown, George O. 

Buntin, Homer H. 

Blalack, Pearl 

Carr, Charles A. 

Callahan, Owen 

Catlin, Courtney L. 

Carter, Howell H. 



Carlson, Harry E. 
Campbell, Lester E. 
Cobb, John L. 
Cooper, Robert F, 
Crane, Fred A. 
Culver, Willard K. 
Dack, Harry G. 
Degarimore, Eddie 
Doop, Jesse 
Dobson, Glen 
Drybread, Ephraim 
Eastin, Homer F. 
Elliott, Verl 
Edmunds, Walter J. 
Earlow, Denzel M. 
Eleenor, William V. 
Gardenshire, Malcolm 

H. 
Gardner, Henry I. 
Howe, Claude E. 
Holton, Floyd A. 
Henderson, Homer J. 
Henderson, John S. 
Healer, Thomas 
Hyler, Denver H. 
Hole, James M. 
Jackson, Ivan 
Jones, Robert S. 
Johnson, Samuel K. 
Krone, Edward F. 
Long, Oscar 
Lusby, Henry H. 
Lusby, Everett E. 
McClure, Roy A. 
McGee, Paul C. 
Mcintosh, David A. 
Moss, Charles H. 
Main, John P. 
Murray, Orville O. 
Meyer, Emil J. 
Mensch, Ray S. 
Marshall, Hal E. 
Morse, Milford J. 
Malcolm, Ira E. 
Milton, Wood E. 
Murray, Lynn R. 
Metcalf, Harold W. 
Navarre, Guy W. 
Navarre, Otto 
Parshall. George S. 
Rains, Crit 
Renner, William 
Rundell. Lee S. 
Rowland, Alfred L. 
Saladin. Tohn H. 
Schoenfeldt, Carl J. 
Sloan, Julius C. 
Shunk, Guy E. 
Schulz, William C. 
Taylor, Theodore 
Taylor, Ogle 
Tuttle, Thomas P. 



Van Cleave, Everett 

E. 

Vance, Willis W. 

White, Guy S. 

Wahl, William A. 

Witt, Sterling 

Wetzel, Guy 

Watt, Everett P. 

Ziegler, Noland T. 

Winchester, Burt C. 

Schreck, Edward G. 

Strassberg, Herman 

Spelman, Joseph F. 

Sutton, Sewall 

Sutton, Newton 

Richardson, Loyd M. 
Cooks: 

Murray, Thomas D. 

Hunt. William H. 

Forman, Lew R. 
Buglers: 

Holdren, John 

Dennis, Harlan A. 

Roads, Harold B. 
1st Class Privates: 

Allen, Carl K. 

Allen, Vernon 

Bauer, George F. 

Carpenter, Arville W. 

Clifford, Homer L. 

Decker, Robert J. 

Bopst, William O. 

Hoover, Ora 

Hosier, Merle 

Nicholson, Chauncey 
I. 

Mann, James 

Mibeck, Jacob G. 

Oakleaf, Paul B. 

Ray, Dennis 

Shy, John W. 

Sutton, Ward 

Thompson, Jack 

Springer, Job 
Stephens, James M. 

Swisher, William Z. 
Privates: 

Bircher, Archie C. 

Dougherty, Henry W. 

Hayes, Jack W. 

Hilyard, Lee F. 
Mears, Herbert E. 

Moews, George 

Marling, Ben W. 

Neary, William J. 

Owen, Frank G. 

Parker. Benjamin F. 

Pinegar, George D. 

Price, Charles E. 

Roszel, Hugh D. 
Russell, Lonnie E. 



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FIRST REGIMENT, KANSAS FIELD ARTILLERY 

HEADQUARTERS 

TOPEKA 



FIELD AND STAFF 



Major, 

William A. Pattison 



Colonel, 

Hugh Means, ,, . 

Commanding ^^?JO^' ^ „, . 

T • . X /^ 1 1 Roy F- Waring 

Lieutenant-Colonel, Captain, 

Bruce Griffith Richard B. Porter 



Captain, 

Clarence G. Grimes 
Captain, 

Martin C. Pennekamp 
1st Lieutenant, 

Earl A. Blackburn 



HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

TOPEKA 



Captain, 

Arthur M. Mills 
1st Lieutenant, 

Frank H. McFarland 
Regt. Sergeant Major, 

Cummings, Earl R. 
Bn. Sergeant Major, 

McGaw, Stewart M. 
1st Sergeant, 

Rhule, Grover C. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Johnson, Rupert A. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Blakely, Charles G. Jr. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Ringgenberg, Joseph 
C. 
Sergeants: 

Beine, Robert F. 

Kreger, John B. 

Spielman, Harold G. 

Sproat, Philip H. 
Cooks : 

Neely, Frank B. 

Leiss, Walter H. 
Privates : 

Anderson, Ben F. 

Anderson, Oscar R. 

Barbour, Lancewell M. 

Bothwell, Karl 

Bulkley, Henry H. 

Carson, Harry 

Collins, Joe P. 

Crowell, Harlow 

Debauge, Joseph A. 

Ditmer, Otto H. 



Felker, Charley E. 
Fichtner, Frank R. 
Fritz, Edwin A. 
Gardner, Vance G. 
Goodsell, Clyde M. 
Gregory, Edwin M. 
Hanson, Harry P. 
Hey, Roscoe E. 
Jenkins, William E. 
Johnson, Arthur E. 
Johnson, Arthur V. 
Johnson, Carl V. 
Johnson, Richard 
Kessinger, Mervin R. 
Kiesow, Herman F. 
Kistler, Herbert D. 
Larson, Albin L. 
Leander, Gus 
Lynch, Patrick A. 
McArdle, Albert H. 
McFall, Robert R. 
Main, Clarence L. 
Mainey, Francis A. 
Marchetti, Latt 
Marshall, Joseph O. 
Mauzey, Joseph H. 
Neiswender, Chester 

P. 
Nicholson, John H. 
Parrish, William W. 
Phillips, Robert A. 
Powers, Louis A. 
Sawyer, Raymond M. 
Sharpless, Samuel 
Shipley, Roderick J. 
Shultz, Joseph 
Skinner, Rexford G. 



Smiley, Harold A. 

Smith, George 

Thatcher, Kenneth T. 

Vann, James A. 

Wilkerson, Clyde 

Williams, Earl M. 

Wilson, Harvey 

Zercher, John A. 

Ziegenbein, Hamer L 
Band Leader, 

Morrison, Thomas S. 
Asst. Band Leader, 

Main, David W. 
Band Sergeant, 

Smith, Daniel L 
Band Corporals: 

Miller, Martin G. 

Eckert, Fred 

Gibbs, Karl M. 
Third Class Musicians: 

Barnes, Bryant 

Bowman, Fred W. 

Bowman, Vernon E. 

Browne, Richard H. 

Dennis, Loyd H. 

Hammer, Claude T. 

Henkle, Elgin G. 

Hough, Byron 

Maxwell, Paul M. 

Montgomery, Charles 
Z. 

Morris, Clyde R. 

Peterson, Tell 

Ramsey, Fred A. 

Ritts, Alvin V. 

Russell, Homer 

Sinclear, Jack W. 



Captain, 

Thomas A, Mayhew 
1st Lieutenant, 

Benjamin H. Porter 



SUPPLY COMPANY 

TOPEKA 

Privates : 

Ahrens, Fred W. 

Baker, Alma 

Bair, Raymond F. 



Bilello, Frank H. 
Conoway, Clyde E. 
Cooper, Arthur 
Dalton, Aaron V. 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Dow, John C. 
Fike, A. I. 
Foster, Edwin A. 
Frye, Ed 
Frost, Jack 
Halsey, Marian A. 
Hawk, Jo Fuqua 
Hendricks, Eh 
Houck, Frank M. 



Johnson, Roger W. 
Morgan, Earl 
Mouror, James R. 
McAuliffe, William J. 
Porter, Earl L. 
Porter, Samuel P. 
Shinn, Clarence A. 
Stimson, Ray A. 
Stimson, Cleo 
Shelden, Benjamin W. 



Schmidt, Gus A. 
Saxon, Kenne 
Thrift, Claude M. 
Winstead, Dewey E. 
Wood, Ernest E. 
Workman, Charles W. 
Whitehead, Fred B. 
York, Solomon E. 
Zartman, Oscar B. 



Captain, 

William P. MacLean 
1st Lieutenants: 

Paul T. McFarland 

Nels Anderson 
2d Lieutenants: 

Donald F. McKee 

Hugh A. MacLean 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Leslie Rowles 
1st Sergeant, 

Wilson, Clarence E. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Kennedy, Edgar C. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Domme, George 
Mess Sergeant, 

Coon, Edgar R. 
Sergeants, 

Link, William C. 

Whitaker, Thomas C. 

Kennady, Homer F. 

Maxwell, Albert 

Goshorn, Robert E. 

Mariner, Zoe O. 

Baker, Clarence E. 

Brantingham, George 
L. 

Rogers, Glenn W. 
Corporals : 

Bell, Edwin F. 

Murphy, Charles 

Baker, George P. 

Critchfield, Otto B. 

Tamquay, Ernest C. 

Fulton, Marshall T. 

Morehouse, Edgar 

Beerbohm, Fred W. 

McArthur, Charles E. 

Thomas, Theodore 

McGee, Chauncey 

Woods, Arthur M. 

Beals, Herbert J. 

Smith, James B. 

Stone, Alpha 

Young, Ralph M. 

Bracy, Willard H. 

Fable, Frank 

Irvin, Leonard D. 



BATTERY A 

TOPEKA 

Jarrell, Archibald W. 
Cooks: 

Towles, Glendon 

Cavert, James M. 

Woolworth, Cecil I. 
Chief Mechanics: 

Stewart, George D. 

Hammond, Harry L. 

Wiesner, Isidore A. 

Ireland, George I. 
Horseshoers: 

Goodell, Edward S. 

Pepper, Lee V. 
Saddler, 

Bolibaugh, Louis 
Buglers: 

LaFromboise, Roy 

Sweeney, Paul 

Kaufman, Paul T. 
1st Class Privates: 

Gum, Horace L. 

Lesher, Cecil S. 

Lyons, Reed M. 

Norris, Lewis M. 

Parry, Thomas H. 

Randall, William N. 

Smith, Marshall 
Privates: 

Ackerman, James R. 

Adams, Delbert 

Adams, Dennis 

Adams, John 

Albro, Fred 

Anderson, Charles B. 

Arnold, Herman 

Austin, Willard D. 

Barthel, Harold S. 

Bennett, George L. 

Bettinger, Osbern D. 

Bower, Camile J. 

Bower, William 

Boyer, Harry F. 

Brookish, Maurice 

Braubaker, Albert T. 

Buckley, Lyle H. 

Bundy, William D. R. 

Garnahan, James J. 

Garnahan, Robert A. 

Carroll, James W. 



Chacey, Doyle L. 
Chambers, William L- 
Chappelle, Oscar H. 
Cole, Summer W. 
Conklin, Arthur L- 
Cook, Elijah W. 
Cooper, Harry E. 
Cunningham. Walter 
Davis, Ralph H. 
Decker, Claud R. 
Denner, Payton L. 
Dickerson, Curtis 
Diehl, John P. 
Dietz, John P. 
Down, Harry E. 
Eddy, Jesse A. 
Eagle, Arthur L. 
Eagle, Robert L. 
Evans, Thomas 
Frederick, Guy L. 
Freeman, Martin J. 
Freeman, Max C. 
French, Charles H. 
Fronke, Arnold C. 
Gable, George D. 
Gardner, Carl S. 
■Gohrt, Edwin E. M. 
Gillette, Kenneth R, 
Givens, George E. 
Gracey, William P. 
Gregory, Leonard L. 
Groff, Webb W. 
Grunthal, Walter C. 
Ball, Kenneth W. 
Hammer, Howard P. 
Hastings, Irving R. 
Haynes, William C. 
Hazel, Ernest C. 
Head, Joseph A. 
Heberling, Junius L. 
Henderson, Edwin A. 
Henry, Arthur P. 
Hensel, Hiram F. 
Henson, Vernon A. 
Holland, CHfford R. 
Irish, Floyd E. 
Tames, Walter E. 
Johnson, Cliflford O. 
Johnston, George F. 



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Kane, John T. 
Kaufman, Stanley 
Keim, Harvey D. 
Keine, Edward A. 
Kirby, Vance 
Kling, John 
Laird, Leslie 
Lang, Carl G. 
Lengen, William V. 
Lent, Roscoe W. 
Lindemann, Richard 

W. 
McCorkill, Walter M. 
McConnell, Charles 

N. 
McKnaught, Charles 

G. 
McMurtry, Harold C. 
Mair, Earl L. 
Martin, Zack 
Mauzey, Perc E. 
Miles, Winslow F. 
Moore, George S. 



Morey, Charles T. 
Morgan, Ralph G. 
Morrow, Arthur C. 
Newman, Clifford A. 
Norris, Walter B. 
Palmer, Roy H. 
Patterson, Mahlon H. 
Phillips, William H. 
Price, Harrison L. 
Rafferty, Owen J. 
Rains, George O. 
Rees, William 
Reinoehl, Carl R. 
Richards, Kenneth V. 
Robbins, Harry L. 
Robinson, Ellis A, 
Rooney, Robert 
Rosner, Albert S. 
Rowley, Earl S. 
Saunders, Galen W. 
Scahlon, Frank J. 
Schwab, John B. 
Smith, Albert E. 



Smith, Marion A. 
Springer, Harold G. 
Steinmetz, Henry O. 
Steinmetz, Ivan 
Stewart, Samuel G. 
Stice, Glen C. 
Stockton, Lee 
Swearingen, Maurice 
Tanner, Charles W. 
Thomas, John E. 
Torrence, Howard 
Tweedy, Robert D. 
Uphouse, Thomas R. 
Wallace, George B. 
Ward, Charles E. D. 
Warner, Lorraine D. 
Watson, Alex C. 
Werner, Ed G. 
Whitaker, James M. 
Willett, Albert E. 
Workman, Lester 
Wright, Harvey W. 
Sellars, Fred E. 



Captain, 

John S. Amick 
1st Lieutenants: 

Charles E. Edwards 

Dana T. Jennfngs 
2d Lieutenants: 

Ralph H. Spotts 

John F. Troutman 
1st Sergeant, 

Fink, Louis O. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Rice, William I. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Baker, Milton L. 
Sergeants: 

Battin, Charles T. 

Jones, Harold M. 

Ogden, Raymond C. 

Ritter, Clair A, 

Winey, Willard L. 
Corporals: 

Davis, Earl E. 

Dunkley, George 

Thomason, Russell W. 
Cooks: 

Horr, Worthie R. 

Kemper, HoUis D. 

Talbert, Leslie A. 
Mechanics: 

Nottingham, Harold 

E. 

Reed, George O. 
Samuel, Ralph C. 
Buglers: 

Bishop, Howard L. 
Blackbird, Thomas 



BATTEEY B 

Lawrence 

Picketts, Tom A. 
Privates: 

Abbott, George 
Aldrich, Earl W. 
Allen, Fredria R. 
Arnold, Lewis W. 
Barnd, Richard 
Baumgartner, Carl H. 
Bear, Abe 
Bennett, Alfred S. 
Bradstreet, Edward D. 
Brass, Edward B. 
Bray, Floyd E. 
Breakey, George D. 
Brown, Rufus Earl 
Bruner, Dryfus F. 
Buckner, Claude E. 
Burns, Edward 
Cain, William G. 
Carr, Harry 
Carter, Russell D. 
Chinsoe, William 
Chupco, Moses 
Clarke, Byron L. 
Coffin, George E- 
Conner, Charles A. 
Conrad, Howard 
Coogan, John L. 
Cooper, Edward O. 
Couteau, Herbert 
Cox, Edward R. 
Creel, Howard E. 
Curry, Everett 
Dailey, Jasper A. 
Dale, Allen P. 
Davis, Thomas D. 



Davis, Jesse W. 
Deere, Daniel 
Dougherty, Joseph C. 
Dove, Charles M. 
Duvall, Thomas 
Ellis, Blair 
Ellis, Otto 
Elston, George 
Evinger, Labon E. 
Ewing, Walter 
Fairbanks, Samuel P. 
Fletcher, Zell 
Forgery, Jesse J. 
Gettinger, Elmer 
Gibler, Eugene E. 
Gooselaw, Henry 
Gordanier, Glenn L. 
Gotts, Harry 
Goulette. Preston 
Graves, Ezra T. 
Griggs, Eugene 
Hadl, Vitus 
Hafmoon, Edgar 
Harding, Frank E. 
Harjo, Johnson 
Harvey, Samuel J. 
Heiken, Ernest H. 
Holm, Bryan 
Henderson, Earl M. 
Hill, Samuel 
Holt, Frank M. 
Hopper, Ralph G. 
Humphrey, Wilbur J. 
Hunter, Floyd L. 
Hunter, Issac 
Ingles, James A. 



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Ingram, Irwin 

Jewett, Mark 

Johnson, William N. 

Johnson, John O. 

Jones, William M. 

Justice, Edward S. 

Kane, Lawrence W. 

Karns, Warren A. 

Kerschen, Carl N. 

Kilbuck, Jerry 

King, George W. 

Kingsley, Volney 

Kirby, Elton A. 

Kirkpatrick, Dewey M 

LaDeaux, Antoine 

LaMere, Charlie B. 

Lange, Leo H. 

Lemberber, Lloyd E. 

LeRoy John F. 

Lind, Lloyd L. 

Lowry, Lyman 

McCabria, Harry G. 

McCurtain, Grene 

McKittrick, John 

McPherson, Raymond 
C. 

Maddox, Dewey 

Mannschreck, Orval 

Martin, William Har- 
ry 

Meadows. Roy W. 

Mears, Gus M. 

Miller, Fred H. 

Mills, Lloyd R. 



Murie, Lawrence 
Neanomantuby, Jacob 
Oakley, George 
Oatman, Arthur C. 
Okeson, George N. 
O'Neil, Donald B. 
Oswalt, Arthur 
Otto, Edward A. 
Owens, Miles M. 
Pate, Goldy M. 
Peacock, Phillip 
Pepper, Robinson 
Phegley, Homer El- 
wood 
Phelps, Lawrence 
Pickens, William 
Pieratt, William E. 
Pollock, Harris 
Prettyboy, Benjamin 
Puckett, Clarence E. 
Rairden, John R. 
Randall, Charles B. 
Randall, Richard 
Reed, Homer C. 
Reed, James A, 
Reinhart, James A. 
Reneau, Lee E. 
Richmond, Alfred B. 
Risley, Chester 
Romero, Ralph 
Rooks, Edward F, 
Russell, Jacob B. 
Saunders, Henry W, 
Schramm, Joseph 
Shelton, Oakley R. 



Shoemaker, Lee W. 
Shovlin, John E- 
Sloop, Ernest W. 
Smith, Leon E. 
Sockey, Rafe 
Starns, William D, 
Stewart, Clarence A. 
Taylor, Charles M. 
Thompson, Harry H. 
Tompkins, Amzie T. 
Tracy, John R. 
Trammell, Joe W. 
Trock, Elmer L. 
VanNess, William D, 
VanWey, Guy S. 
Venard, William L. 
Vandegrift, Vernol K. 
Vandegrift, Vertol J. 
Vitt, Otto L. 
Walrod, Carl 
White, Alvin 
White, Elmo E. 
White, Frank H. 
Williamson, Roy 
Winkler, Frank E. 
Woodward, Merritt 
Yardy, William 
Simmerman, Clyde R. 
Bates, George 
Helwig, Paul M. 
Hodges, Stephen E. 
Johnson, Arthur G. 
Judd, Earl C. 
Martin, Murry 



Captain, 

James C. Hughes 
1st Lieutenants: 

Hal Curran 

Peter L. Zickgraf 
2d Lieutenants: 

John Broadlick 

John H. Blair 
1st Sergeant, 

Wofford, John E. 
Stable Sergeant, 

McCoy, Bob M. 
Sergeants: 

Brown, Charles M. 

Goodwin, John W. 

Woodard, Fred E. 
Corporals: 

Wolfe, Cecil E. 

Billings, Earl K. 

Wilson, Edward 

Bruce, Estel V. 

Cockerill, Carl L. 

Holmes, Frank 

French, Arthur M. 



BATTERY C 

Pittsburg 

Frakes, Henry G. 
Wright, Arthur L. 
Privates : 

Adamson, Harry B. 
Allison, Robert E. 
Arkle, John P. 
Azember, Nick 
Bamthouse, William 

M. 
Benedict, Frank G. 
Bennett, Amos F. 
Billiard, Ernest 
Black, Charles R. 
Blake, Albert S. 
Boissier, Elie 
Boissier, Leon 
Bone, Alexander H. 
Bordin, Achille 
Boothe, Daniel L. 
Bridgewater, Clyde E- 
Bridgewater, Paul A. 
Britton, Andrew R., 

Jr. 
Budde, Frank H. 



Buehre, Frederick A 
Burdick, Clyde R. 
Burger, Waldo Y. 
Burnett, Joseph R. 
Bicknell, Edgar S 
Cadwallader, Ardell 
Cameron, Jerry 
Campbell, Bill H. 
Chaffins, Frank 
Chancellor, Roy E- 
Chancellor, John A, 
Choat, Oscar 
Chr>'sler, Leo F. 
Copley, Roy C. 
Cordray, Otis 
Craft, Clarence A. 
Crelly, Harold J. 
Courtney, Reginald R. 
Cowden, Harry D. 
Condy, George R., Jr. 
Davis, Clarence 
Davis, John W. 
Decuyper, Fernand 
Degen, David W. 



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423 



Degen, Sam M. 
Delaney, Patrick J. 
Deruy, Henry 
Diehl, Oscar J. 
Dodson, Fred M. 
Doss, Hollis C. 
Easom, Lewis E. 
Elliott, Daniel 
Ermey, Fred L. 
Etzel, Charles W. 
Everitt, Robert C. 
Ewalt, Theodore 
Eyestone, Hal J. 
Fairchild, Elza O. 
Fairchild, John W. 
Feldman, John F. 
Ferguson, John 
Fichtner, Clarence E. 
Flottman, Arnold L. 
Flores, Florence 
Fougnie, George 
Frankes, Charles E. 
Fristoe, Frank B. 
Fuller, Benjamin A. 
Fullum, Earl E. 
Francis, Wolfe D. 
Geier, Lloyd E. 
Gillin, Mark B. 
Goodman, Ewart Y. 
Graham, Andrew 
Henderson, Fredie 
Henson, Charles K. 
Hill, Ira T. 
Hill, John F. 
Holcomb, Leroy F. 
Hooton, John 
Huffmann, Arthur W. 
Hughey, Leslie W. 
Hughey, Verne E. 
Ingalsbe, Meryl T. 
Inglis, Edward 
Jarrell, Kelsey A. 
Johnson, Russell 
Jones, Lloyd C. 
Kasper, Arnold J. 



Kautzman, Thomas A. 
Keady, Loyd C. 
Kelley, Lewis M, 
Kelso, Jorden 
Kelso, William M. 
Kent, Alpine N. 
Kincaid, Max G. 
Knoll, John J. 
Kubas, Frank 
Lear, Benjamin 
Lemler, David W. 
Littleton, Bowman T. 
Lutz, Elmer L. 
Lux, Lester A. 
Lynd, Lloyd A. 
Mackey, Irven 
Liggatt, Herbert H. 
Mallen, Thomas D. 
May, Walter C. 
Maylen, William 
McElhenie, George 
McHaley, Roy 
Michie, Troy W. 
Manning, Edward A. 
Middleton, Robert W. 
Miller, Shelby V. 
Minerd, Sylvester L. 
Mingori, Louis 
Modlin, Charles R. 
Montgomery, Frank 
O'Connor, Bryan J. 
O'Donnell, Mathew J. 
Osborne, William C. 
Owens, Oscar 
Page, George E. 
Patterson, Tyler C. 
Painter, John L. 
Parsons, John L. 
Pigg, Robert F. 
Powers, Harold C. 
Quackenbush, Lan- 

don O. 
Reeder, Bufford 
Renison, Loyd 
Ridley. William 



Rodgers, Harry L. 
Ryan, Howard T. 
Schenck, William J. 
Schneider, Jacob J. 
Sandbickler, Emil 
Sells, Dewey P. 
Shields, Frederick 

B., Jr. 
Schirk, Rudolph R. 
Schnebly, George J. 
Spoonhour, Edward 

E. 

Staff, Arthur E. 
Starchich, Frank, Jr. 
Sullivan, Martin 3. 
Tatham, Harry 
Thomas, Asa A. 
Toussaint, Albert R. 
Trogdon, Ray 
Ulery, Charles E. 
Vanderville, Cezar 
Vandris, Augustus 
VanMeter, Augustus 
VanMeter, Charles R. 
Vantrepotts, Fernand 
Van Voast, Deforest 
Vessadini, Pete 
Walker, Blaine E. 
Walker, Leonard E. 
Watters, Ellington W. 
Wery, Joseph L. 
Whiten, Jewel C. 
Williams, Winford 

M. 
Wilson, William L. 
Winters, Robert C. 
WofFord, Raymond J. 
Wolf, William W. 
Woodbury, Forrest G. 
York, George 
Robinson, Arden 
Losses, Discharged, 

S. C. D. 
Bell, Galen M. 
Gibbons, Alfred F. 



Captain, 

William H. Brady 
1st Lieutenants: 

Clanrold A. Burnett, 

Dwight A. Pomeroy 
2d Lieutenants: 

Gerald B. Fenton 

William W. Bass 
Sergeants: 

Hyndman, James M. 

Young, Earnest B. 

Liepman, Morres V. 

Cockerill, Clay R. 

Wharton, Ja F. 



BATTERY D 
Pittsburg 

Corporals: 

Dixon, Fremont 
Hussey, Charles 
Bouck, Harry W. 
Broadlick, Robert 
Reed, Robert M. 
Flottman, Edward A. 
Logan, John 
Wilson, Bryan 
Fern, John P. 
Ouinn, John A. 
Nett, Bert D. 
Tyrk, John C. 
Haney, William B. 
Russell, Richard 



Privates: 

Adams, Worlie W. 
Allister, James 
Anderson, James W., 

Jr. 
Armstrong, Albert L. 
Beck, Harry B. 
Blaker, Lynn D, 
Bollinger, Harlow 
Bower, Harry D. 
Bradfield, Ellis H. 
Broderson, Chester B. 
Brooks, Orville 
Brown, Carl B. 
Brown, Joseph 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HIU:. TO EXERMONT 



Buchanan, William 
I. 

Buckeye, Harry J. 
Bullington, Elmer 
Butler, Abraham O. 
Chancellor, Chester 

A. 
Cherry, Gustave 
Christiansen, Otto 
Clark, Alva K. 
Clinkenbeard, Clarence 
Coley, Joe h. 
Colwes, William W. 
Condit, Ray M. 
Cooper, Walter G. 
Crosaglia, Joseph 
D'Haillecourt, Desire 
Dawson, William E. 
Dorris. Walter W. 
Duffy, Michael 
Easom, Harry 
Edwards, George 
Eisenbrandt, Henry 

Eppinger, Clyde 
Eyer, Herbert L. 
Frame, Floyd F, 
Francisco, Ralph P, 
Freeman, Frank 
Gerhard, Henry 
Glitten, James E. 
Golle, August 
Goodwin, Dovie 
Graham, Robert E. 
Graham, William A. 
Gugello, Pete 
Hamblin, Robert W. 
Hammer, Fred 
Hamsher, Samuel J. 
Harrigan, Joe A. 
Harshfield, William 

E. 

Heatwole, Harry G. 
Helms, Alvia 
Helms, Dewey 
Heslet, Raymond L,. 
Highbaugh, Swan E. 
Hill, Davis C. 
Huckaby, Loren 
Hughes, George E. 
Irwin, Paul H. 
Izatt, William A. 



Jarivasi, Dominic 
Jenkins, Ernest P. 
Jones, David T. 
Jones, Frank R. 
Kingston, Ozam 
Kirby, John 
Kittle, William T. 
Kreiger, Amos H. 
Kuppersmith, Edward 
Lomb, Warren 
Lauer, George L- 
Leigh, Tom 
Eemaster, Leonard O. 
Lewis, Roy 
Loomis, Frank 
McAlhaney, Raymond 

L. 
McCain, Paul T. 
McCoy, Dallas P. 
McDaniel, James A. 
McFarland, Lester 
McFarland, Raymond 
McGinnis, Edward D. 
McGlothlin, James M. 
McManus, Richard A. 
McMurray, Earl C. 
Mavery, Jesse 
March. Charles A. 
Martin, Joseph H. 
Maxwell, Donald C. 
May, Gordon J. 
Minter, Marvin E. 
Moore, Archie A. 
Morris, Decalb 
Nehon, Ramage N. 
Newton, William A. 
Nichols, Earl F, 
Nielsen, Robert 
Nightingale, Wilfred 

H. 
Nute, Benjamin J. 
O'Dell, John G. 
Overmeyer, Charles 

C. 
Prettyman, Quincy W. 
Province, John T. 
Quinlan, Raymond A. 
Racy, Clifford N. 
Racy, William 
Reinhardt, Floyd E. 
Richard, Edward A. 
Richard, Jules 
Restau, Ervin O. 



Robinson, John A. 

Robinson, Lorraine H. 

Ross, Charles F. 

Ross, Randal N. 

Russell, William 

Sanders, Ernest A. 

Sayles, Floyd E. 

Schmiedeler, Aloysius 

Scholes, George H. 

Seaman, Herbert H. 

Selenan, Herman 

Shead, Elza B. 

Sheets, Frank L. 

Shirley, Otis M. 

Sills, William T. 

Skinner, Eugene A. 

Smith, William H. 

Schmiedeler, Aloysius 

Stewart, Charley 

Steffer, Frank M. 

Stroud, William V. 
Thiolet, Theodore 

Thompson, Samuel 
Timmons, Warren M. 
Tipton, William A, 
Towery, Robert C. 
Van Hall, Julius F. 
Vance, Joseph E. 
Volkert, Louis E. 
Walker, Augustus 
Walter, Alva J. 
Ward, James 
Welsh, Edward Jr. 
White, Charles W. 
Whitney, Arthur W. 
Williams, Orvil A. 
Wilson, Floyd O. 
Wilson, Marion 
Wood, Frederick 
Wood, William S. 
, Work, Earl 

Worrall, John L- 
Zinn, Ralph E. 
Zurek, Bryan 
Loss-Discharged : 
Cowan, James H. 
Hubbard, Albert M. 
Neeks, Albert 
Oberto, Joe 
Quigley, Julian F. 
Shinn, Marshall E. 
Van Meter, Elbert 



Captain, 

Phil. S. Hoyt 

1st Lieutenants: 

Early W. Poindexter 
Frederick H. dander 



BATTEBY E 
Kansas City 

2d Lieutenants: 
Roger L. Barker 
Glenn A. Russell 

1st Sergeant, 

Householder, Victor 
H. 



Supply Sergeant, 
Anderson, Carl E. 

Stable Sergeant, 
Reed, Walter J. 

Sergeants : 

Cheak, Lucian 



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425 



Laird, Benjamin H. 
Holder, Edward F. M. 
Ingle, Truman L. 

Amidon, Edward C. 

Wall, Courtney C. 
Corporals : 

Gray, George H. 

Cass, Joseph 

Miller, William E. 

Dahlgren, Earl W. 

Campbell, William E. 

Chambers, Thomas A. 

Harris, Orville 

Hedstrom, Algot G. 

Millikan, George N. 

Larson, Carl J. E. 

Mount, Bert 
Buglers : 

McBratney, Robert R. 

Patton, W. Sidney 
Cooks: 

Gayman, Thomas 

Lemmon, Sturling 

Wagner, Raymond W. 
Privates : 

Anderson, Lawrence J. 

Audas, Howard H. 

Baker, Edwin M. 

Barker, Edward D. 

Ballenger, Edward 

Baughey, Leslit A. 

Beauchamp, John A. 

Belan, John 

Bender, Cecil 

Bigham, George F. 
Black, Leroy E. 
Bolande, Harold E. 
Bradley, Raymond P. 
Bratschie, Fred S. 
Bridendolph, Neil 
Brockwell, John B. 
Bronson, Richard T. 
Brown, Myron D. 
Burns, Fred E. 
Burditt, Henry 
Burchfield, Leslie K. 
Campbell, Charles E., 

Jr. 
Cargill, William F. 
Coleman, Clyde D. 
Conklin, George E. 
Conley, Edward P., Jr. 
Corcoran, Ben O. 
Copewycz. Walter 
Cowles, Elisha C. 
Cowles, Lucius L. 
Crofton. James J. 
Crumpley, Horace 
Davis, Toe 
DeGroff, James S. 
Dempsey, Archie D. 
Dennett, Robert W. 
Donohue, Tames L. 
Donovan, William J. 
Eaken, William L. 



Edmonds, John H. 

Evans, Richard J. 

Fennelly, Leo J. 

Fisher, Frederick H. 

Fisher, Joseph C. 

Franey, Frank V. 

French, Charles L. 

Gatewood, Harley B. 

George, James M. 

Giles, Chnton B. 

Gleason, Joseph T. 

Glidden, Lyle B. 

Gossage, Melvin McK. 

Gough, John B. 

Gravatt, Homer 

Griffin, David 

Grimes, John A. 

Gross, John W. 

Grove, Charles V. 

Gustafson, Carl 

Hanauer, Edward T. 

Hansen, Martin 

Hargreaves, Fred E. 

Hauf, Earl O. 

Hindle, Joe O. 

Holden, Herbert G. 

Howell, Charles O. 

Hughes, John J. Jr. 

Hurd, Virgil L. 
Hurralbrink, Herman 

W. 
Isenhour, William H. 
Jewett, Chester C. 
Jobe, Charles 
Johnson, Chester E. 
Johnson, Floyd A. 
Jomowkvich, Joe 
Jones, George H. 
Kerns, Charles W. 
Klebansky, Samuel 
Koons, Charles D. 
Korasic, John F. 
Krehm, George J. 
Laird, Earl 
Larson, Harold A. 
Laughlin, Thomas T. 

A. 
Leinbach, Barto J. 
Leinbach, Charles E. 
McConnell, John J. 
McCulley, James C. 
McDonough, Thomas 

L. 
McGill, Ronald F. 
Mclntyre, Claude 
McMahon, Joseph 
McMurray, Elmer H. 
Mackey, Carl L. 
Manning, Robert E. 
Markowitz. Daniel 
Markley, Charles J. 
Marshall. Arthur R. 
Meier, Charles W. 

Mertel, Arthur H. 



Miller, Henry L. 

Millikan, Roy E. 

Misell, Robert L. 

Mitchell, Ernest W. 

Morrison, Ovid T. 

Moss, Everett R. 

Motis, Nicholas 

MuUies, Ralph W. 

Noel, James P. 

Noll, Paul R. 

Nystrom, Arthur G. 

O'Neil, Fred P. 

O'Rourke, John F. 

Odgers, Sheldon P. 

Olson, Walter O. 

Osborn, Robert 

Porley, George R. 

Pfeiffer, Wilbur C. 

Reardon, Daniel J. 

Rice, George PL 

Rice, Samuel R. 

Rohl, Anthony J. 

Sawyer, John W. 

Schiller, George W. 

Scheicher, George L. 

Schooley, Glenn G. 

Schraer, Cliflford E. 

Shaw, Cornelius R. 

Simpson, Frederick 

Sims, Martin D. 

Smith, Clarence M. 

Smith, Frank E. 

Smith, Harry B. 

Smith, Jesse E. 

Sprowl, David A. 

Sprowl, Marshall R. 

Stainforth, Fred 

Sterner, Charles 
Stewart, Walter W, 

Swan, Edward R. 
Talkin, Andrew H, 
Taylor, Henry J. 
Thomas, Terdon L. 
Thomas, Roy G. 
Thurgate, George M. 
Torrey, John F. 
Trantum, John T. 
Valentine, George 
Vaughn, Tames M. 
Walker, Charles F. 
Walker, Hugh O. 
Walters, Herman L. 
Williams, Claud" J. 
Williams, Earl H. 
Williams, John M. 
Williams, Lucian Q. 
Wilson, Edward P. H, 
Wood, Charles D. 
Wright, Walter 
Zelenok, George A. 
Losses Discharged, on 
Account of Depend- 
ents, 
Kitchen, William 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



BATTERY F 

Wichita 



Captain, 

Birdie E. Sauers 
1st Lieutenants: 

Frank T. Priest 

Samuel W. Woolley 
2d Lieutenants: 

Erwin R. Bleckley 

Bert Simons 
1st Sergeant, 

Klein, Randall T. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Moore, Eric C. 
Supply Sergeant, 

McMillan, Claude V. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Schultz, August A. 
Sergeants : 

Flournoy, John J. 

Copeland, Frank T. 

Ryan, Elmer E. 

Howse, Edward J. 

Lemmers, Frank D. 
Corporals : 

Carter, Ray P. 

Logate, James E. 

Mathias, Joseph J. 

Hackelman, Charles B. 

Stippich, Chester V. 

Scanland, Merle C. 

Barrows. Charles F. 

Ross, Elbert S. 

Scott, Wm. F. 

Geeslin, David M. 

Shambaugh, Cloy D. 

Cambell, John A. 

Bachman, Ray 
Chief Mechanic, 

Andrus, Rollie H, 
Horseshoers : 

Lyons, Arthur B. 

Graham, Arthur W. 
Mechanics : 

Clardy, William N. 

Oilman, Orville J. 

Dennis, Wilford A. 
Saddler, 

Spidle, Charles N. 
Cooks : 

Lakey, Elmer 

Weaverling,Clarence A. 
Buglers : 

Tones, Wilbur H. 

Wikoflf, Charles W. 

Kelly, Donald F. 
Privates : 

Allon, Russell T. 

Axline, Andrew A. 

Bailey, Cecil W. 

Baker, Paul E. 

Baumunk, John L. 

Beach, Glenn A. 



Bolan, William C. 
Brewer, John Henry 
Brosius, Chauncey G. 
Brown, Cyrill M. 
Butts, George W. 
Camp, Wayne C. 
Caplinger, Robert F. 
Carroll, William L. 
Clinton, Svlvester J. 
Coghill, Floyd V. 
Cone, John F. 
Crawford, James E. 
Davis, Edmund D. 
Davis, Harold W. 
Dean, Glenn L. 
Devaughn, Walter B. 
Devins, George F. 
Dewey, Harvey J. 
Diehl, Paul A. 
Doherty, Joseph E. 
Donelon, William M. 
Duckworth, Harry U. 
Everitt, Vern D. 
Flourno3% Hubert E. 
Freizzell, Elton S. 
Gabrielson, John A. 
Gray, Lyle H. 
Gray, Lowell C. 
Gray, Claude W. 
Gray, Glenn N. 
Gable, Ivan C. 
Gardner, Lester H. 
Glaves, Virgil E. 
Grej', William J. 
Guy, Kenneth E. 
Hacknev, Ewing S. 
Hall, Joseph H. 
Hall, Roy L. 
Harbaugh. Fred B. 
Harris, Herschel G. 
Harrison, Russell B. 
Hatfield, Harold B. 
Haynes. James W. 
Havs, Tames E. 
Holphrey, Earl H. 
TTelmers, Edward T. 
Henrickson, Sven E. 
Hester, Perl M. 
Higdon. ITobart F. R. 
Himmelwright, Homer 

N. 
Hitch ner, George 
Hodges. Edgar A. 
TTolland. Harry L. 
Horn. Fred 
Howerton, Thomas 

W. 
Hughev, Clyde D^ 
Tngram, Charles M. 
Ink, Ira M. 
Jackson, Virgil E. 



Keck, Edward E. 
Kennedy, Jesse E. 
Kerr, Luther 
Keys, Oliver 
Kiddoo, Lyman C. G. 
King, Ray B. 
Klee, Charley 
Klee, Charley 
Klee, John J. 
Knipp, Raymond A. 

F. 
Knox, Ralph S. 
Kuechenmeister, Emil 

L. 
Lee, Clarence M. 
Lee, James H. 
Lee, Merritt R. 
Leiter, Rufus 
Lynn, Ben H. 
Marshall, Virgil 
Marchall, William M. 
Miller, Clayton C. 
Moore, Harry W. 
Moore, Harry E. 
ISIoore, Ralph A. 
Mourning, Fred W. 
Mueller, Henry R. 
Myers, Claude R. 
McConnell, Paul J. 
McCormick, Homer L. 
McCoy, Carl W. 
McNally, Frank E. 
Neal, Lester E. 
Negley, Cyril C. 
OfFenstein, Henry J. 
Osier, James D. 
Overstreet, Arthur D. 
Oyler, Jesse R. 
Padgett, Milo W. 
Panier, Guy R. 
Patterson, Edgar 
Payne, John N. 
Peacock, Lawrence A. 
Pence, Harold H. 
PhilHppi, Murrell L. 
Phillips, William P. 
Pierce, Edwin P. 
Pierce, Harvey H. 
Prier, Harrv 
Rambo. Carl W. 
Randall. Ralph A. 
Rice, Herbert O. 
Richards, Stanley B. 
Richardson. John F. 
Roberts, Walter B. 
Rogers, George C. 
Rouse, Wallace T., Jr. 
Ruble, Adrain A. 
Rudd, William L. 
RuflFridge, ivrichael A. 
Sence, Leslie B. 



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Schnert, Merle F. 
Schooley, William O. 
Shaw, Andrew F. 
Shepherd, Fred W. 
Smith, June B. 
Smith, Robert M. 
Snook, James W. 
Sparks, Reed C. 
Stanley, Lawrence 
Stoon, Fred 



Stevens, Merville O. 
Stravlo, Fred G. 
Surtees, Baisel ly. 
Sweetland, Zephyr K. 
Torry, Floyd C. 
Thompson, James C. 
Truex, Lewis H. 
Truitt, Harvey G. 
Violette, Harold S. 
Walker, Chester L. 
Watson, Flmer F. 



Waugh, Maurice G. 
Wetterhold, Arthur R. 
Whittaker, John P. 
Willett, Francis W. 
WilHams, Fred M. 
Wilson, Charles I. 
Wilson, Max G. 
Winn, Caleb F. 
Witt, Karle C. 
Wood, Karl A. 
Yeager, Raymond W. 



DETACHED MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 



1st Class Sergeant, 
Robbins, Harry F- 

Sergeants : 

Simpson, Harry S. 
Whitehead, Floyd S. 

Privates : 

Akers, Claude 
Bird, Havert L. 



Bailey, James H. 
Bratton, Kenneth B. 
Davis, Harry J. 
Hamilton, James R. 
Jones, Fdwin R. 
Jones, Fred ly. 
Kimes, Maurice J. 
Klina, Harry E. 
Lockwood, Phil R. 



Morrison, Jesse F. 
Rowe, Orville W. 
Schock, Gus C. 
Shore, Alonzo F. 
Scholtz, Arthur H. 
Walker, Marcus V. 
Warnock, Harold L. 
Wilson, Charles O. 
Yonkers, Harry A. 



FIRST KANSAS FIELD SIGNAL BATTALION 

HEADQUARTERS 
Wellington 



FIELD AND STAPF 

Major, 1st Class Sergeant 

Milton R. McLean Smith, James F. 

Commanding Sergeants : 

First Lieutenant, Loomis, Far! H. 

Kenneth G. Lewis Waugh, Neal B. 



1st Class Privates: 
Dubreuil, Louis T. 
Meeker, Cloise C. 
Miller, Benjamin J. 
Partridge, Clare A. 
West, Vernon B. 



1st Class Sergeant, 
Crake, Waiter L. 



SUPPLY SECTION 

1st Class Privates: 
Curtis, Lloyd F. 
Downing, John F. 



Fraelich, Henry H. 
Lafromboise, Floyd B. 
Neese, Olave L. 



Captain, 

Elmer G. Stahl 
1st Lieutenant, 

WilHam C. Carswell 
1st Lieutenant, 

Chester H. Thomas 
1st Sergeant, 

Orrel, Galpin H. 
1st Class Sergeants, 

Anderson, Mahor M. 

Burdick, C. Dale 

Thacher, Safford D. 

Warner, John C. 

Ziesenis, Harry C. 



COMPANY A 

TOPEKA 

Sergeants, 

Wiss, Quirin A. 
Privates : 

Beasley, Wm. A. 

Bechtel, Roy M. 

Beisner, Cecil H._ 

Butler, Eugene U. 

Campbell, Elmer 

Carlson, Victor E. 

Carlson, David L- 

Carris, Roy O. 

Carson, Geo. W. 

Caskey, Edmund L. 



Chappelle, Archie 
Charlesworth, Firth 
Cofifman, Plarry 
Coakley, Claude 
Corkill, Paul D. 
Cox, Harry E. 
Coykondall, Arthur 
Douglas, Em. H. 
Effinger, Ralph C. 
Erskine, Edgar M. 
Erskine, James R. 
Estep, Dale 
Fairchild, Howard 



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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Ferguson, Geo. 
Ferrin, Harley A. 
Ferris, John 
Firmer, Henry 
Foster, Roy C. 
Granger, Harry W. 
Gregory, Ivan D. 
Hauber, John F. 
Henley, Byran 
Henley, Frank 
Henley, Stephen 
Hughes, Avis S. 
Jamison. Raymond 
Linsberg, Arthur 
Mohrwein, Roy H. 



Meier, Leo S. 
Mohrbacker, Byron C. 
Moore, Clyde S. 
Mooring, Ernest L- 
Neeley, Fren L. 
Ness, Burt R. 
Nicholson, Edward L. 
Paulson, Kurtz, L. 
Punches, Wm. R. 
Scott, John F. 
Shaffer, Don 
Shaffer, Paul 
Sharpless, Fred S. 
Short, Calvin S. 
Stone, Francis E. 
Stone, Wm. A. 



Sutherland, Kenneth 

L. 
Sutton, Alpha E. 
Swink, Bert 
Taylor, Wm E. 
Titus, Martin D. 
Tucker, Claude H. 
Urie, Rolland W. 
Wall, James W. 
Ward, Meade L. 
Whitney, Curt K. 
Woods, Leonard D. 
Woods, Morris D. 
Yewell, Roy C. 
Ziesenis, Roy C. 



Captain, 

Walter LeG. Cox 
1st Lieutenants: 

Willis LaD. Donald 

Grover C. Freeman 
M. S. E. 

Clawson, Millard E. 
1st Class Sergeants: 

Womack, Ralph J. 

Kernal, Delbert L. 

McFarland, William 
F. 

Anderson, Eric E. 

Neal, Harry A. 
Sergeants : 

Young, Lloyd M. 

Lott, Joseph C. 

Anderson, Gustave C. 

Roberts, Harold M. 

Hershkowitz, Martin 

Cox, Herschel D. 
Corporals : 

Fowler, Iver F. 

Anderson, Frank D. 

Adams, Charles H. 

Davis, Frank C. 

Knock, Earl R. 

Shapel, Amel 

Newman, Albert H. 

Brownfield, Maro 

OUiver, Myler D. 



COMPANY B 

lOLA 

Wright, Kenneth 

Frederickson, Judson 
C. 
Cooks : 

Gay, Hubert L. 

Varner, George H. 
Horseshoer, 

Murphy, Joseph T. 
1st Class Privates: 

Anderson, Ralph L. 

Anderson, George W. 

Bass, Orean H. 

Brolliar, Albert W. 

Benson, T. Wyllys 

Beatty, Areotus F. 

Chilcote, George J. 

Chas, Frank A. 

Dulinsky, Mount C. 

Davis, Lee F. 

Florence, Albert F. 

Fryer, Russell C. 

Frevert, Robert E. 

Hayes, Glen W. 

Hurlock, Clyde E. 

Harper, Frank W. 

Horton, Robert A. 

Helper, Laurence G. 

Jackson, John A. 

Jones, Joseph C. 

Lane, Roy 

McKarnin, Sylvester 



Moore, Carl E. 

Myers, Benjamin 

Price, Carl M. 

Pittsenberger, Samuel 
S. 

Smith, Clarence D. 

Smith, Jesse F. 

Shapel, Philip 

Steele, Oliver H. 

Stillwell, Loy W. 

Vincent, Guy M. 

Warford, Clarence L. 
Privates : 

Campbell, Chlore W. 

Canty, Earl C. 

Daniels, Albert H. 

Dixon, Paul 

Eraser, Howison J. 

Hilton, Emery 

Hardwick, Oliver B. 

Jones, Raymond E. 

Kelley, Thomas J. 

Leigh ty, Vaughn 

Martin, Joseph A. 

Milne, John A. 

Provost, Francis T. 

Owens, Ferdinand L. 
Losses Discharged, De- 
pendents : 

Davidson, William J. 

Hale. Ray R. 



Captain, 

Claude C. Bayless 

1st Lieutenants: 

Carl A. McClintock 
Jesse McGlynn 
James W. Coffey 
Floyd W. Whitmore 

1st Serjeant, 

Waddell, James W., Jr. 



COMPANY C 

Wichita 

Mechanic, 

Douglass, Charles H. 
Cooks : 

Cannon, Richard L. 

Hendrix, Mont W. 
Privates : 

Adams, William E. 

Armstrong, Frank ly. 

Arnold, Claude A. 



Babb, George S. 
Baker, Marvin S. 
Bachman, Fred H. 
Bell, Carl A. 
Bell, Everett I. 
Branson, Otis D. 
Burt, Lee E. 
Coston, Donald L. 
Chilcott, Frank E. 



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Cooper, Donald J. W. 
Davis, George A. 
Edmondson, BenjarAin 

F. 
Elcock, Charles H. 
Foster, Marion Y. 
Graves, Harlan 
Greer, William A. 
Gregory, Thomas F. 
Griesmger, Frank R. 
Grove, Henry I,. 
Hanna, Robert 
Harpster, Claude 
Henn, William C. 
Holdren, Don R. 
Huggins, Foster M. 
Hutchinson, Roland 

R. 
Trwin, Paul S. 
Johnson, Emmette VL 
Johnston, Garold R. 
Jones, Louis V. 



Kessinger, Vern C. 
ha Grant, Earl W. 
Eane, Walter O. 
Law son, William E. 
Latta, William E. 
Lauer, Earl D. 
Magie, Albert E. 
T^Iarks, Carl Percy 
Masterson, William F. 
McFall, Oscar L. 
McQuiston, Earl H. 
Moore, Harry C. 
Moore, Jesse L,. 
Myers, John M. 
Murphy, Frank 
Nettls, Walter H. 
Nutter, Earl I. 
Price, Evan J. 
Priest, Howard O. 
Richman, Phillip 
Roberts, Thane O. 



Rodman, Burton H. 
Saunders, Julian h. 
Shires, Benjamin C. 
Shockey, Orville 
Skean, Byron A. 
Sloan, Virgel D. 
Smith, Otho G, 
Throckmorton, Adel 

F. 
Toennies, Benjamin F. 

C. 
Waldron, Wesley F. 
Watkins, Myron J. 
Webb, Joseph W. 
Weidman, Richard 

Thomas 
White, Rodger L. 
Wright, William E. 
Williams, Floyd 
Wohlford, William W. 
DeVier, Cecil J. 



Privates : 

Ausmuse, Philip 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 

Clark, Arthur H. 
Dale, Henry L. 
Tucker, Lynn E. 



1st Class Sergeants: 

Wilson, Donald D. 

Fritz, Walter R. 

Thoren, Carl E. 

Shadinger, Harold D. 

Hesse, James W. 

Balakely, Victor K D. 
Sergeants : 

Milam, Morris D. 

Nash, Edward C. 

Shepard, Cortland W. 



DETACHMENT 

Weber, George W. 
Welty, Donald D. 
Brockett, Wallace J. 
1st Class Privates: 
Baker, Von C. 
Bowman, Herbert D. 
Briery, Clifford C. 
Cole, Wilbur D. 
Fellows, Frank L. 
Lawn, James F. 
Reinbach, Otto M. 



Waite, Frank B. 
White, Verne D. 



Rowell, Lloyd G. 

Samuelson, John N. 

Willard, Glenn M. 
Privates: 

Gustafson, Charles M. 

Hall, Lester H. W. 
Cooks : 

Chapman, Marion S, 

Jasperson, Clarence 
P. 



KANSAS SANITARY TRAIN 
FIELD HOSPITAL NO. 1 

TOPEKA 



Major, 

Seth A. Hammel 
1st Lieutenants: 

Merril K. Lindsay 

Henry S. Rogers 

Dana O. Jackson 

Harold H. Jones 

Frank C. Boggs 
1st Class Sergeants: 

McCoy, Milton E. 

Hawkins, June A. 

Piepenburg, Aaron L. 
Sergeants: 

Herman, Ralph S. 

Gurtler, Albert C. 

Gohesn, Ira L. 

Logan, Glenn F. 



Dewey, Thomas E. 

Johnson, George C. 
Cooks : 

Gould, Charles R. 

Oges, Edward M. 
Horseshoer, 

Luker, George F. 
Mechanic, 

Dickman, Fred M, 
Farrier, 

Reffelt, Rudolph F. 
Saddler, 

Burns, Earl J. 
Bugler, 

Deimler, Ralph W. 
1st Class Privates: 

Akey, McKinley 



Arbuthnot, Sidney 
Bingham, Earl O. 
Blevins, Howard W. 
Conard, Morton D. 
Dunn, John 
Gage, R. Merrill 
Geiser, Walter J. 
Harrison, George C. 
Hickey, Granville C. 
Hinds, David H. 
Holcomb, Allie E. 
Hoyt, Charies B. 
Hughes, Herbert F. 
Jones, Ernest 
Kennedy, Carl P. 
Lyon, Charles B. Jr. 
McCarter, James C. 



430 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



McCrew, Nathan W. 
Riddle, Dudley McD 
Root, Jesse F. 
Runnels, Cecil H. 
Sailer, Ernest K. 
Staerkel, Max G. 
Swearingen, Ralph M. 
Taylor, Henry H. 
Thompson, Edward 

W. 
Walp, Charles L. 
Weaver, James B. 
Wells, George D. 
Wright, Myron A. 
Simmerman, Joseph 

F. 



Privates : 

Anderson, Christopher 
Age, Guy J. 
Bennett, Charles A. 
Buck, Loyd W. 
Burghart, Casper 
Burns, Claude T. 
Carney, William N. 
Chapin, Dean W. 
Cratte, Irving F. 
Evans, Harold C. 
Graham, Harry L. Jr. 
Hamilton, William L. 
Hammond, Noel R. 
Harrell, James M. 
Laine, Maurice D. 



Ludington, Fred G. 
McClave, Edison W. 
McDaniel, Ralph W. 
Meredith, Roscoe A. 
Murphy, Paul 
Nye, Robert W. 
Parish, Glen L. 
Peck, Kenneth L. 
Scharping, Erwin E. 
Shehi, Winfield 
Shirk, Harold L. 
Silk, Max H. 
Stevens, Francis J. 
Stewart, Roy 
Townsend, Goley 
Widener, Mark V. 



Major, 

Carl Phillips 
1st Lieutenants: 

John C. Cornell 

Charles C. Bennett 

James G. Rea 

Charles L. Mosley 

Joseph C. Bunten 
1st Class Sergeants: 

Courtney, George W. 

Cranford, Charles W. 

dinger, Raymond C. 
Sergeants: 

Bailey, Homer F. 

Dick, Frank N. 

Fowler, Merle 

Hodge, Lester X>. 

May, Ralph E- ^ 

Simon, Loren K. 
Cooks : 

Ayers, Maurice F. 

McClary, Carl 

White, Ira E. 
1st Class Privates: 

Birt, Roy H. 

Brown, Seth G. 

Burton, Marion T. 

Debolt, William H. 

Dent, Rawley, J. 

Elwyn, Russell H. 

Funk, Arthur C. 



1st Lieutenants: 

William L. Rhodes 
Clarke W. Mangun 
Tiberius L. Jones 
Ralph C. Hartman 
Harold M. Glover 

1st Class Sergeants: 
Pierce, Frank B. 
Wilson, James C. 



FIELD HOSPITAL NO. 2 
Parsons 

Graham, John S. 
Green, Charles H. 
Harlow, Mack 
Hendrickson, John H. 
JeiTrey, Richard C. 
Kimmey, Virgil A. 
Lietnaker, Cherry E. 
Ott, Archie L. 
Parker, Glenn M, 
Prall, John D. 
Rule, Albert B. 
Rule, Herbert E. 
Sage, William H. 
Sayers, Huggart A. 
Storey, Edward M. 
Thorpe, Lewis M. 
Von Buhn, Herman 
Van Home, Ralph 
Wheat, Lewis H. 
White, James L. 
Willard, Donald M. 
Agnew, Frank T. 
Babcock, Dewey Z. 
Bicknell, John R. 
Campbell, Russell 
Carr, Byron H. 
Caldwell, Dalton L. 
Carson, Clvde F. 
Clark, Orville P. 
Cumminsrs, Dewey V. 
Davis, Bert L. 

AMBULANCE CO. NO. 
Kansas City 

Sergeants : 

Lyon, Charles J. 
Cole, Frank R. 
Holcombe, Robert F. 
McGhan, Francis L. 
Wolf, George O. 
Singer, Walter T. 
Henderson, George 



Foxworthy, Carl 
Gates, William J. 
Gebhart, Bert A. 
Gemmell, Harry A. 
Griggs, Morton R. 
Hacker, Charles L. 
Hammell, Lee A. 
Harlow, James H. 
Hayes, Alfred L. 
Tagger, Buel W. 
Johnston, Earl W. 
Jones, Alpha L. 
Keiter, Cecil E. 
Locke, William H. 
Pittser, Ollie F. 
Rafferty, Virgil J. 
RatlifF. Charles C. 
Reynolds, William L. 
Shrewsburv, Charles 

L. 
Seller, Ralph G. 
Sparks, Albert R. 
Spear, Alfred 
Stevens, Wilburn W. 
Stewart, Allen L. 
Synder, Roy 
Todd, Alvin L. 
Vandervort, Earl J. 
Wendell, John P. 
Workman, Charle" E- 
Wolverton, Jack L. 



Corporals : 

Perkins, Robert G. 
Thompson, Bruce M. 
Gott, Henry V. 
Harrington, Ralph G. 
Wortman, Paul A, 
Heinze, Fred C. 
Douglas, Jodie A. 
Abbott, Roy C. 



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lycep, Bernard Q. 

Baker, Claude M. 

Cheever, Wert S. 
Cooks: 

Hackler, George H. 

Specklin, Paul A. 

Hartig, Cyril M. 
Musicians : 

Street, I^Hjah M. 

Feurt, James B. 
Mechanic, 

Garwood, LrCsIie C. 
Farrier, 

Herod, John L. 
Horseshoer, 

Powers, William A. 
Saddler, 

Asman, Fred 
1st Class Privates: 

Atkins, Theodore W. 

Atkinson, Russell J. 

Bailey, Fdward R. 

Bangs, William G. 

Barber, Harry A. 

Beaumont, Raymond 
L. 

Bishop, Roger S. 

Blankenship, Elihue 
H. 

Bohanon, Frank 

Brainerd, Rowe H. 

Brown, Ernest M. 

Bullard, Harry J. 

Burkett, Lloyd L. 

Buzard, Reginald L. 

Cannon, Carl P. 

Caraway, Sidney 

Campbell, John F. 

Chandler, Walter T. 

Childers, Lovd D. 

Chiles, Ray W. 

Clark, Paul M. 

Clendening, Robert 

Commons, Claude E. 

Conklin. Elmer E. 

Cook, Homer N. 

Coons, Henry A. 



Davis, Alfred A. 
Duke, William R. 
Dunn, Paul W. 
Ehn, George A. 
Erickson, Elliott 
Feehan, Walter J, 
Ferguson, Marvin P. 
Ferguson, Winfield S. 
Fisher, Harold E. 
GiiTord, Melvin R. 
Gilhaus, George J. 
Girten, Sylvester H. 
Goes, Louis E. 
Gordon, Clyde W. 
Gordon, Lynell 
Gray, Edward F. 
Gregg, James F. 
Gregory, Vernon L- 
Grisham, William B. 
Haley, Jacob 
Hall, Stanley L. 
Hankins, Staten M. 
Harden, Wesley G. 
Harding. Orville 
Hawk, William M. 
Herd, Frank P. 
Holcombe, Walter M. 
Holmberg, Arthur F. 
Hood, Otto D, 
Horner, Tack 
Hudson, Lemuel S. 
Hundley, Dare 
Hutton. John Wm. 
Hicks. William B. 
Tngraham, John D. 
Irvine. Harry L. 
Tackson, Owen 
Tuones. Royston 
Johnson, Roy L. 
tustice, Tohn A. 
Lee, Roland H. 
Logan, Carl A. 
Logan, Combe D. 
Loman, Ambrose R 
Long, Ed ear A. 
Manley, Mervin C. 
Martin, Clarence E. 



Mays, Lee R. 
McCarthy, Bernard J. 
McCoy, Chester S. 
McCulley, Rose H. 
McDaniel, William R. 
McFadden, Wiley G. 
McKinney, Hugh P. 
Mendon, Jerome F. 
Mitchell, John W. 
Moore, Horace H. 
Morse, Darwin D. 
O'Connor, Bert 
Owens, Clarence H. 
Patterson, Leo M. 
Philibert, Bert 
Probat, Arnold W. 
Prater, Robert E. 
Ouinn, William R. 
Rayburn, Otto E. 
Reid, Jesse B. 
Richardson, Paul E. 
Rock, Edward A. 
Schaefer, William C. 
Shahane, Walter H. 
Smith, Everett A. 
Smith, Claud A. 
South, Vernon E. 
Stewart, Jack 
Strong, Ralph A. 
Swan, Leslie N. 
Swanson, Carl A. 
Swanson, Edgar F. 
Swartz, Arden E. 
Swenson, Bernard M. 
Tonn, Edward 
Toynton, Clyde G. 
Veitch, Caleb G. 
Vestal, Moody D. 
Walsh, John 
Walton, Floyd G. 
Webster, Tohn D. 
Wilhite. Harry E. 
Wood, Clarence M. 
Woodruff, John R. 
Wright, James F. 
Wurtz, Joseph K 
Ziegler, Carl E. 



AMBULANCE CO. NO. 
Kansas City 



1st Lieutenants: 
Edwin R. Tenney 
Richard T. Speck 
Alpheus J. Bondurant 
Adam E. Adamson 

1st Class Sergeants: 
Rowland, Charles G. 
Adams, James A. 

Sergeants: 

Hadley, Vernon A. 
Leady, Roscoe B. 
Markley, Algeron 



Parsons, John D. 
Thomas, Chester L- 
Falconer, Clarence E- 
Carson, Edward T. 
Corporals: 

Hovey, Clarence E. 
Ward, Clarence S. 
Knight, Robert R. 
Weirshing, Guy 
Dugan, Rollo C. 
Toler, Roy P. 
Robinson, William O. 



O'Dowd, Benjamin H. 

Roach, Norvin M. 

AUeman, Neal D. 

Christian, John W., Jr. 
Cooks: 

Toohey, Paul A. 

Karbach, Albert R. 
Musicians: 

White, Frederick R. 

Keck, Kenneth G. 
Privates: 

Addison, James W. 



432 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Anderson, J®hn W. 
Anderson, Willard C. 
Adams, Ernest T. 
Bailey, Clarence E. 
Barnes, Joe 
Barnes, Richard A. 
Barnett, Benjamin 
Brown, Kenneth 
Baum, Earl W. 
Blackwell, Joseph F. 
Baum, Eldon E. 
Blazer, Robert T. 
Bradbury, Claude L. 
Brennan, Edward W. 
Briggs, Clarence 
Briggs, Junior 
Brown, Guy 
Brunell, Ferinand F. 

c. 

Buckles, Doyle L. 
Buckley, Lee E. 
Childs, Wesley M. 
Carter, Edward 
Church, Romulus B. 
Cline, Ernest R. 
Cole, Charles R. 
Conquest, Victor 
Corbett, Joseph F. 
Coyle, Walter E. 
Crowley, John J. 
Davidson, Vernie A, 
Dennis, Jesse A. 



De Talent, Edward C. 
Finley, Harold H. 
Flagg, Paul E. 
Flesher, Clarence W. 
Foster, James R. 
Gibson, Walter N. 
Gregar, Mike G. 
Goff, Melvin W. 
Hallquist, Hugo F. 
Hamman, Albert E. 
Hart, George M. 
Hendricks, William R. 
Hinze, Edward W. 
Houston, Herbert S. 
Hueben, Paul T. 
Ise, Frank H. 
Jackson, Dale B. 
Jenkins, Robert C. 
Jenner, Clifford M. 
Jesson, Joseph J. 
Johnson, Andrew 
Johnson, Roy E. 
Jones, Jacobus F. 
Janson, Henry M. 
Kocher, Ernest J. 
Kemper, Eugene L. 
Locke, Lloyd B. 
McClenahan, John S. 
McNabb, Fred R. 
Martin, William R. 
Miller, Samuel C. 
Minniear, John R. 
Moore, Chester 



Murray, Frank H. 
Nelson, Oscar F. 
Oellrich, Clarence E. 
Parimore, Roy C. 
Pedago, Ellis 
Piatt, William C. 
Pringle, Kenneth W. 
Putman, Lawrence A. 
Rebeck, John M. 
Reid, Alex 
Reid, Roderick V. 
Rewerts, Fred C. 
Richmond, Lloyd 
Russell, Thomas C. 
Schenke, Harold W. 
Siebers, Frank A. 
Sherrell, Clarence 

W. 
Smith. Glen E. 
Stalcup, Ernest F. 
Stewart, Chester B. 
Still, Robert 
Stutes, Chester A. 
Talmadge, Abram J. 
Van Cleave, Donald 

W. 
Vesper, Harold E. 
Walker, John W., Jr. 
Weaverling, Jacob C. 
Williams, William J. 
Wolf, Jonathan A. 
Covington, Vand D. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 

These men and officers were called into Federal service June 20, 
1917, and sent to Medical Training Camp, Ft. Riley, Kansas — later 
transferred to other organizations. 



Lieutenants: 

Charles M. Siever 
Joseph S. Alford 
Charles C. Hawke 
Merill K. Lindsay 
Harold H. Jones 
Ralph C. Barnes 

1st Class Sergeants: 
Hawkins, June A. 
Gurtler, Albert C. 



Sergeants: 
Wilson, Glen 
Glahn, Harry 
Allphin, Wayne 
Myers, William 
Logan, Glen F. 
Thomas E. Dewey 



1st Class Privates: 
Arbuthnot, Sydney 
Glahn, Eugene 
Hale, George 
Holcomb, Allie A. 
Hughes, Herbert F. 
Jones, Sam I. 
Starkweather, Robert 
Taylor, Henry H. 
Weaver, James B. 



DETACHMENT, MEDICAL CORPS 



Major, 

Emanuel N. 



Marti 



FIRST SQUADRON, KANSAS CAVALRY 

HEADQUARTERS 

lOLA 

FIELD AND STAFF 



Major, 

Lute P. Stover 

Commanding 



1st Lieutenant, 
Cyril L. Fuller, 

Adjutant 



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Captain, 

Ralph E. Baker 
1st Lieutenant, 

Eugene R. Martin 
2d Lieutenant, 

Elzie E. Clark 

1st Sergeant, 

Miller, Wilkie M. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Ainsworth, Howard W 
Supply Sergeant, 

McMuUen, Everett 
A. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Purkable, Harry V. 
Sergeants: 

Rodenbaugh, Charles 

Smith, James W. 

Weiser, Charles H. 

Gore, Clarence E. 

Moffitt, Russell M. 
Corporals: 

Ladd. Ole E. 

Marriott, Dean R. 

Wiggins, George E. 

Miller, Albert B. 

Burt, Harold A. 

Cook, Archie A. 

Hamlin, Edwin F. 

Pugh, Lloyd A. 
Horseshoers: 

Weldon, Robert L. 

Cook, John E. 
Saddler, 

Klein, Fred C. 
Cooks: 

Sovern, Samuel L. 

Martin, Ralph L. 
Buglers: 

Martin, Errol S. 



TROOP A 

Eureka. 

Riney, Harold P. 
1st Class Privates: 

Hickman, Harry C. 

Berry, Lloyd A. 

Call, William L. 

Duncan, Jesse 

Hart, Harold M. 

McFall, Ray H. 

Wheeler, Charley H. 

Wright, Rodney R. 

Lewis, Glenn R. 

Todd, Eddie L. 

Willis, James H. 

Swann, Carl S. 

Call, John C. 

Gullikson, Charles M. 

Hunt, Fred L. 

Harris, Joseph H. 

Wright, Wordie I. 

Jones, Earl J. 

O'Brien, Francis F. 

Ladd, John E. 
Privates: 

Askey, Lee E. 

Agard, Robert 

Atkinson, Arthur R. 

Barker, Willie 

Barber, Charley 

Barg, Melvin H, 

Betsher, William H. 

Branson, Hugh 

Bland, James W. 

Beyer, Oscar A. 

Boone. Everet L. 

Cox, Claude I. 

Collins. William F. 

Conn, Roy J. 

Crans, Thurlow S. 

Cummings, Arthur C. 

Divine, John A. 

Dolson, William E. 



Davis, Roy L. 
Edwards, Oral W. 
Gibson, Grover C. 
Hellman, Glenn C. 
Herbert, Arthur 
Hillman, Charles E. 
Johnson, Lowell W. 
Jones, Earl O. 
Jordon, Harry E. 
James, Vernon A. 
Kessinger, Bennie 
Lloyd, Walter W. 
Love, Otis 
Milham, Ralph A. 
Miller, George 
Meredith, Cline J. 
Milner, Calvin A. 
Owen, Alvin G. 
Olson, Henry J. 
Pryce, Sam 
Roberts, Clyde 
Rockley, Rex 
Ray, Arthur C. 
Ryan, Frank C. 
Robb, Vivian E. 
Reay, Charles R. 
Sallyards, Logan 
Soully, Andrew I. 
Smith, Otto G. 
Stride, Clarence R. 
Samuels, William A. 
Schall, Jack 
Stockton, Ernest M. 
Sturgeon, Harold J. 
Schadel, Levi M. 
Talley, Cecil V. 
Webb, Earl R. 
Wilson, Norman R. 
Weatherbee, Fred L. 
Watso, Frank R. 
Walter, Barney 



TROOP B 
Wichita 



Captain, 

James H. Sherman 
1st Lieutenant, 

Elisha J. Stroud 
2d Lieutenant, 

Merle E. Hollicke 
1st Sergeant: 

Bishop, George E. 
Mess Sergeant, 

Lanning, Wayne J. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Chapman, Burchard 
B. 



Stable Sergeant, 

Cooper, Walter S. 
Sergeants: 

Evans, Jack 

Fielder, Fred 

Hunt, Richard L. 
Corporals: 

Cunningham, Claude 
F. 

Brown. Willard R. 

Lord, Ralph C. 

Critser, Dale W. 

Ogile, Frank O. 



Giodings, John L. 
Foley, James W. 
Privates: 

Anderson, Emmitt C. 
Asher, Roy D. 
Banta, Orson F. 
Bidwell, Andrew J. 
Boyle, Dewey 
Brown, John R. 
Brumfield, .TOe 
Burns, James W. 
Callahan, Warren J. 
Campbell, Carl F. 



434 



FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 



Case, Charles E. 
Cherry, Leland S. 
Close, Elmer H. 
Colson, James C. 
Colver, Ralph B. D. 
Corbin, Robert 
Crawford, Herbert J. 
Current, Orval E. 
DeCourcey, Victor St. 

E. 
Daugherty, Bryan J. 
Doran, Ira 
Elliott, Jesse R. 
Ester, Lawrence W. 
Fowler, Raymond G. 
Carver, Virgil I. 
Goosey, Merle C. 
Graves, George C. 
Graves, Henry C. 
Gregory, Chester A. 
Harman, Robert L. 
Harned, Frank S. 
Harper, Albert D. 
Heine, Albert VV. 
Hervey, Raymond C. 
Hibarger, Godfrey S. 
Hills, Dan C. 



Helt, Roy F. 
Holliday, Owen J. 
Holsey, Henry N. 
Howard, Clarence A. 
Holt, Rollie H. 
Houston, James W. 
Husted, Emery E. 
Jansen, Charles 
Johnson, Rudy L. 
Kearney, William A. 
Kemper, Charles L. 
Kennedy, Earl L. 
Laurie, James M. 
Lickey, Clifford 
Menahan, Thomas L. 
Matson, Lauren C. 
Mayfield, Henry M. 
McMahan, Pearl P. 
McDaniel, Floyd 
McKivett, James C. 

A. 
Miller. Walter L. 
Milligan, Harry D. 
Moore, Pearl T. 
Nagley, Earl 
Nagley, James W. 
>Jewcomb, Jack 
Pantier, Ray W. 



Parker, Merle D. 
Patterson, Clarence 
Penny, Kelles N. 
Penland, Robert E- 
Phenneger, Forrest C. 
Pickens, James F. 
Pickens, Leon S. 
Roll, Lloyd L. 
Roll, Arthur D. 
Rowe, Everett M. 
Rush, Oren N. 
Scrimsher, Evell R. 
Sellers, Leonard 
Shafer, Harry H. 
Sharp, Oscar H. 
Showers, Erman A. 
Smith, George O. 
Spurling, Harlowe 
Straw, Herschel E. 
Thompson, Earl W. 
Traver, Harry J. 
Tuttle, Clarence J. 
Umbarger, Ivan D. 
Vance, Francis M. 
Wheeler, Dean O. 
Wilson, Clyde E. 
Wilson. Harold A. 
Wood, George M. 



Captain, 

Joseph R. Gary 
1st Lieutenant, 

Winfield D. Jones 
2d Lieutenant, 

Will T. Hale 
Sergeants: 

Askow, Bernard M. 

Miller, John L. 

Holmes, Jess C. 

Dowdy, Claude D. 

Watson, Lige E. 

Miller, John E. 

Morgan, Fred 
Corporals: 

Myers, Floyd P. 

Balfour, William D. 

Evans, Earl D. 

Dye, William L. 

Evans, Cress B. 
Privates: 

Arrington, Frank H. 

Anderson, Lemual L. 

Anders, Phinas C. 

Archer, Rommie L. 

Allen, Jean H. 

Brentlinger, Charley 

Bader, Ross J. 

Bolinger. Esra D. 

Bailey, William L. 

Barbee, Andrew L. 



TEOOP C 
Dodge City 

Cormack, John C. 
W. 

Cummings, Theodore 
Crowe, James P. 
Craft, Clarence D. 
Craft. DeWitt 
Davison, Roy H. 
Dennis, Robert I. 
Downing, McKinley 
Dooley, William J. 
Dixon, Carnet J. 
Ditch, Oscar 
Eagan, Robert E. 
Eaton, Forrest D. 
Elsev, Howard C. 
Ellis, Herbert B. 
Fiester, George J. 
Fowler, George W. 
Freeman, Alvin D. 
Foster, William J. 
Fugitt, Austin G. 
Gearhart, Byron W. 
Galloway, Lawrence 

H. 
Gilliam, Lloyd H. 
Hill, Guy W. 
Hill, Leonard J. 
Hinke, William E. 
Hole, Martin 
Hays, Dwight D. 
Haff, Vernon V. 



Houston, Harry H. 
Houston, Frank W. 
Hutchison, Chester A. 
Hole, Allen 
Howe, Clifford C. 
Helfrich, Henry C. 
Hutchings, Harold E. 
Hill, Fred G. 
Howard, James A. 
Hudson, Therman O. 
Johnson, Howard L- 
Judd, Robert F. 
Knowlton. Charles A. 
Kuns, Albert W. 
Karraker, Francis M. 
Little, John P. 
Lowery, William G. 
Melton, Thomas 
Mapes, Walter W. 
Mansfield, John H. 
Mallonee, Ira 
Moore. Chas F. 
McCue, Ralph V. 
McDowell, Jess 
Miller, Merl F. 
McDermott, James L. 
Otto, Leo B. 
Page. Herbert. S. 
Pendleton, Elwood 
Parker, Frank G. 
Perry, Jim W. 



ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 



435 



Powers, Grant 
Roberts, Carl A. 
Rockstrum, Charles 
Reeves, Robert C. 
Robertson, Alexander 

W. 
Reese, Victor 
Rapp, Martin S. 



Souder, Chas. O. 
Snyder, Owen O. 
Stafford, Addison D 
Skillington, Lewis E. 
Samples, Lyle K . 
Sisson, Nelson J. 
Sisson, Archie L,. 
Sibert, Elzy 
Summerville, James E 



Timken. Leslie 
Tuttle, Austin L. 
Troehmel, Julius F. 
Sturm, Clyde R. 
Underwood, Thomas 

A. 
Vance, Earl E. 
Wallace, Paul S. 



Captain, 

Ralph D. Fulton 
1st Lieutenant, 

John M. Hite 
2nd Lieutenant, 

Russell F. Milham 
1st Sergeant, 

Fish, Earl S. 
Mess Sergeant, 

O'Connell, Mark E. 
Supply Sergeant, 

Allison, Gelo P. 
Stable Sergeant, 

Drake, Morlan W. 
Sergeants, 

Amos, C. Clarence 

Gillam, John C. 

Wells, Ted W. 

Milliken, Charles W. 

Wilmoth, Jesse B. 
Corporals : 

Cook, Vernon S. 

Dana, Arthur W. 

Flannagan, Mikt 

Ouesnier. Joseph A. 

Hill, I. Thomas 

O'Connell, Paul M. 

Pinkston, Elmer 

Turner, Merle E. 
Horseshoers, 

Davis, Ropcoe J. 

Holmes, Walter F. 
Saddler, 

Pool, Ralph P. 
Cooks : 

Dillon, John L. 

Thomlinson, Amos R. 
Buglers : 

Scott. Paul H. 

Williams, John S. 
1st Class Privates: 

Amos, J. Albert 



TROOP D 

COFFEYVILLE 

Beal, Otis O. 
Brill, Claude H. 
Cavenar, Clarence W. 
Clark, Ellis J. 
Creel, Earl W. 
Debo, William O. 
Fisher, Willard 
Forth, Frank J. 
Hurley, Raj. H. 
Kime, Ernest L. 
McBurney, James B. 
McCormick, George 

D. 
McHatton, Robert P. 
Millstead, William E. 
Pendarvis, William 
Smith, J. Lester 
Summers, Chester R. 
Thompson, Reese A. 
Wallingford, James C. 
Privates : 

Arnold, Lee 
Barnes, Lawrence A. 
Basey, Mark H. 
Bennett, Eddie L. 
Bray, John H. 
Beal, Charlie 
Bowersock, Roy 
Bowman, Frank C. 
Burress, Dewey 
Bugh, Lloyd 
Burris, George 
Boyce, Fred E. 
Burgolty, William H. 
Christy, Ernest P. 
Crittenden, Samuel 
Cooper, Delbert H. 
Dewey, Richard C. 
Dngan, Cuba J. 
Edson, Leon K. 
Evans, Condo 



Farran, James R. 
Ford, Willford H. 
Frizell, Allen 
Hahn, Clyde D. 
Hanley, Harold 
Harrington, Walter D. 
Harvey, Frank H. 
Hindman, Charley M. 
Igo, George W. 
Johnston, Francis H. 
Johnston, Harnss 
Kabler, Ira C. 
Knight, Thomas R. 
Landon, William R. 
Lonnecker, Virgil H. 
Maiden, Clarence O. 
McKee, James B. 
McCleary, Frank W. 
McCloud, John H. 
Owen, Lee R. 
Raczykowski, Thomas 
Ransom, John W. 
Sayre, Aaron V. 
Sullivan, William C. 
Schroeder, Johannes 

F. 
Smith, James Otis 
Stevens, Robert W. 
Stockham, Charles M. 
Swallow, Fred E. 
Taylor, Manning H. 
Tiarks, Herm.an M. 
Tiffany, Dolphin G . 
Tucker, Kyle W. 
Walls, Tilde H. 
Warner, William T. 
Wilson, Willie T. 
Wilson, Frank L. 
Wolfe. William P. 
Wright, Jacob W. 
Young. Perry J. 



SANITARY DEPARTMENT 



1st Lieutenant, 

Samuel E. Simpson 
Privates : 

Alkire, Charles W. 



Baldridge, Floyd K. 
Brenner, Cecil A. 
Ely, Clarence G. 
Enslow, Andrew 



LeatTierwood, Harry 

E. 
Manzering, Carl C. 
Smith, Earl R. 



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